149. Why Matterport Should Buy RSET: the Emergency Responder Training Platform

Why Matterport Should Buy RSET: the Emergency Responder Training Platform (Police, Fire, EMTs)

Commentary and Analysis by
Dan Smigrod
Founder and Managing Editor
We Get Around Network and WGAN-TV Podcast

Matterport should buy RSET is my takeaway from the demo and discussion with the RSET team on a recent WGAN-TV Podcast:

► Matterport + RSET for Real-World Simulations for Police, Fire and EMT Emergency Responders

During this WGAN-TV Podcast, RSET Founder and CEO Bill Gregory said: “RSET is developed for the military and first responders, primarily, where you can take [3D] scans of real-world environments and create an interactive space to do training simulations and after-action review.”

Add to this, according to the RSET website, “... where high risk events can be safely replicated, customized and shared to save lives and reduce injuries in the line of duty.”

Unfortunately, it’s not too hard to imagine a mass casualty incident – an active shooter at a school; church or synagogue; a fire in a museum or theater; or an explosion at a high-visibility and critical building space in your community.

Now, imagine that prior to that mass casualty event, emergency responders – police, firefighters and EMTs – can train within a digital twin of that specific space to rehearse various scenarios such as:

1. Various kinds of casualties
2. AI adversaries shooting back
3. Obstacles
4. weather conditions (smoke, fire, lighting, submerged under water)
5. fire (various burn rates of walls and floors)
6. sounds of people – avatars – screaming for help (or too injured to say anything)

Imagine after mass casualty events, the same as above, except with the actual scenarios, digitally recreated, to do post analysis of “what happened” to either:

1. improve for the next time
2. use in litigation (next generation trial graphics) to bring the jury to the scene of a nightclub fire and walk them around

Before and after simulations for emergency responders are possible because of Matterport + RSET. The Rapid Synthetic Environment Tool (RSET Engine) enables anyone (democratizes) to build-out training scenarios using the Matterport MatterPak Object file (.OBJ) as the environment.

(Continues in the We Get Around Network Forum (www.WGANForum.com).