Mission Room announces partnership with NTAR

The collaboration will facilitate an innovative approach to training delivery and support the continual development of future immersive training solutions.

The Partnership will involve Mission Room supplying technology to enable NTAR to capture 360° video of real world situations, produce immersive training media and let students experience this in a 3m cube Mission Room Arena system. Mission Room will work with NTAR to evolve their immersive training solutions and develop further innovations to the training offering. This will ensure that NTAR maintains a lead in the delivery of their training content. Mission Room will also offer a facility to work with NTAR clients to map this technology to their specific needs.

Mission Room Managing Director, Dr Bryan Denby, says ‘We are delighted to be partnering with such a forward-looking training provider as NTAR to provide innovative 360° technology that will enhance their delivery capabilities.’

Mission Room enables NTAR to place groups of trainees and apprentices inside virtual dynamic and hazardous situations in complete safety, providing a unique training capability within the rail sector. As the first rail training organisation to take Mission Room onboard, the partnership ensures NTAR will be at the forefront of new and innovative training methods.

General Manager of NTAR Simon Rennie, anticipates the Mission Room will ‘enhance situational training in a safety critical environment’. Allowing trainees to be placed ‘safely and collectively, into a simulated environment that could be trackside, in a maintenance depot or demonstrating standard operating processes’. 

The Mission Room system has a multiple benefits, given the wide range of uses, including product familiarisation, technical training, depot or trackside operations (including the development and delivery of health and safety training). 

‘Of great value is the partnership which will enable NTAR to record high resolution content which lends itself to a collaborative and creative process to develop and deliver high quality training’. Simon Rennie, General Manager - NTAR

With a shared passion for innovation, both parties are excited to explore the inevitable opportunities the collaboration affords, with a view to developing new ways to elevate the learning experience using 360° shared virtual reality.