Virtual Heroes, Inc.

Virtual Heroes, Inc.

Virtual Heroes, Inc., the Advanced Learning Technology Company is a serious game developer in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. It was founded in 2004 by veteran developers with an average of about ten years in either the entertainment gaming or simulation & training industries.

Virtual Heroes, Inc. is headed by CEO Jerry Heneghan, formerly at Tom Clancy's Red Storm Entertainment [http://www.redstorm.com/] and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) [http://www.rti.org/] . Heneghan is likewise an army veteran, with specific expertise in flying Apache helicopters. He is the current president of the North Carolina Advanced Learning Technology Association [http://www.ncalta.org NCALTA] .

The company's CTO - Randy Brown - worked with Heneghan at RTI. Its CFO - Bob Pickens - teamed with Heneghan at Red Storm. Takayoshi Sato, Virtual Heroes' Art Director, is widely acclaimed for his work on Konami's "Silent Hill" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill] series of games.

Virtual Heroes' initial projects focused on creating new technology and content for the official, high-profile U.S. Army game "America's Army", leading to the concept of the America’s Army Platform now being used for a number of DOD computer based learning applications. More recently, the company has expanded its Serious Games projects to include space exploration, Medical training and DVHT, "Dynamic Virtual Human Technology". This expansion reflects the Company's greater emphasis on its HumanSim product, a human physiology engine meant to emulate actual medical physics and response to medications.

Several recent high profile projects reflect this emphasis shift.

" [Zero Hero: America's Medic] [http://www.nemspi.org] " was described by Wired Magazine as 'training first responders for real-life natural disasters and terrorist attacks ['July, 2008. Hour Trains EMT's With Worst Case Scenarios, http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2008/06/pl_games] .'

Moreover, the company was a co-recipient of a McArthur Fellowship Grant to create a serious game intended to train NGO's entitled "Virtual Peace" [http://www.virtualpeace.org Virtual Peace] .

Finally, Virtual Heroes partnered with several other technology organizations to produce a high-profile, virtual rock performance of the band "Smash Mouth" at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV. [http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2008/01/intel_keynote]

References

External links

* [http://www.virtualheroes.com Virtual Heroes Official website]
* [http://www.virtualpeace.org Virtual Peace Project Official website]


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