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Joint RSS & PWS Team celebrates winning the prestigious Innovplus Awards 2023!
A team from Radiological Science Singhealth and Playware studios, lead by Dr Yu Wai-Yung won the prestigious Innovplus Flame award (the award comes with a grant of S$200K). The winning solution is aimed at improving the emergency preparedness …
Christine Chan
Jul 19, 20233 min read


Team from SGH & PWS win Innovplus award 2021 (Nov)
A joint team from SGH and PWS won the SGD 200,000 innvplus grant from inlab. The winning SGH Challenge Statement was : “We are looking for a learning solution that allows medical education to be delivered via an …
Christine Chan
Nov 30, 20212 min read


Singapore’s Top Award for Tech Innovation
We’re proud to have qualified as one of the finalists for Most Promising Innovation at Techblazer Awards 2020! Check out the video for our experience of participating last year. The Techblazer awards for 2021 are now accepting entries. If you’re interested to apply, join …
Christine Chan
Jun 28, 20211 min read


Singapore’s first Applied Games & VR Specialist Programme
The Metaverse refers to the multiple immersive and interactive virtual, augmented, and mixed realities that surround us today. The Metaverse is expanding at a phenomenal rate due to the proliferation of Applied Games. This is the application of …
Christine Chan
Feb 19, 20212 min read


3DHive is a Finalist in the SG TECHBLAZER Awards
Playware 3Dhive is one of the 11 Finalist in the Most Promising Innovation category. We were one of the 102 entities shortlisted for preliminary judging. Here is a list of the other finalists. About Techblazer SG:D Techblazer Awards …
Christine Chan
Dec 2, 20201 min read


Playware as the Serious Games & VR Solutions partner of iN.LAB
22 October 2020, Singapore – The Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), an autonomous institute of Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), has announced its Five-Year Strategic Roadmap that charts the institute’s plans to transform Singapore’s Training and Adult …
Christine Chan
Oct 23, 20201 min read


Global Training Services and Playware team win Innovplus Flame Award
Congratulations to our team with the winning design from our Senior Learning Designer Sean McMenamin who won the S$200K Innovplus 2020 Grant organized by In.Lab Singapore an initiative by Institute for Adult Learning Singapore.
Christine Chan
Jul 1, 20201 min read


Playware Remote Working Plan
In compliance with the Circuit Breaker announced by the Singaporean Government, Playware will continue operations online. Our Business Continuity Plans have prepared us for such an eventuality and our core business process and deliverables are not adversely impacted. …
Christine Chan
Apr 13, 20201 min read


SGH ranks in ‘Top 10 Hospitals in the World 2020’
Congratulations to our partner hospital, Singapore General Hospital for ranking in Newsweek’s Top 10 Hospitals in the World! Newsweek partnered with global data research company Statista Inc. to rank the leading hospitals in 21 countries. Methodology: The World’s Best …
Christine Chan
Mar 9, 20201 min read


Playware was at Deloitte Morning Pitch
The Deloitte SEA Innovation Team invited Playware Studios to present for the Morning Pitch 7th of February – it was a startup pitching event that happens every two months in Singapore. The theme for this February was Edutech. Each session, Deloitte invites 4-5 startups in a specific …
Christine Chan
Feb 19, 20201 min read


SGH & PWS Team win an award in the SIMS Games challenge 2019
A team consisting of Nurses from Singapore General Hospital, Ang Shin Yuh, Quek Li Ting, Ivy Goh Hui Qi, Nur Fidtria Binte Sahta, & Sean Padman Israfil McMenamin, Siddharth Jain, Paul de Leon from Playware Studios, won 3rd Prize in …
Christine Chan
Nov 2, 20191 min read


Playware is a part of S3, Asia’s leading Healthcare Simulation Conference
Playware Studios is proud to be a Sponsor of S3 conference this 22nd to 25th of October. The Conference brings to one venue, the collective resources and expertise of three renowned healthcare simulation institutes: SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation …
Christine Chan
Oct 17, 20191 min read


Playware at the Next Generation Content Fair in Busan
Playware Studios was invited by KOTRA to represent Singapore at the Next Generation Content Fair 2019 in Busan, South Korea. Showcasing Characters, Animations, Games, VR $ AR applications, Illustrations, Movies, and other creative media the show had 465 …
Christine Chan
Oct 5, 20191 min read


3DHive’s Layered Architecture
3DHive has a layered architecture designed to make it flexible, easy to integrate with other systems, resilient and extendable. Built for the cloud, it is the world’s first complete eco-system for designing, developing, deploying and distributing practice centric …
Christine Chan
Sep 18, 20191 min read


The Haptics wave is coming!
Haptics seems to be the obvious next step to immersion. The engagement of the somatosensory cortex in media provides an added realism to the storytelling.
Stories that you can you feel will be more memorable, emotional and believable. These devices also upgrade our enjoyment of more conventional entertainment such as music.
Christine Chan
Sep 3, 20192 min read


SKH & PWS Team win InnovPLUS Flame Grant 2019 worth $200,000
A Project Team from Sengkang General Hospital and Playware Studios was awarded the Innovplus 2019 Flame award which comes with a SGD 200,000 Prototype Development Grant. InnovPlus is an iN.LAB’s initiative to facilitate the rapid development of prototypes …
Christine Chan
Jun 14, 20191 min read


Google’s Stadia holds promises in Serious Games, VR and Mixed Reality
Google recently announced, It’s next-generation gaming platform. It’s been in secret development for several years and promises to change the landscape of both videogames content and hardware. Don’t get me wrong, cloud hosted games streaming has been tried …
Christine Chan
Mar 22, 20192 min read


What are GANs and how they are changing the future
GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Networks and is a framework for the development, training and refinement of Machine Learning models. The Concept was or originally published in the paper arXiv:1406.2661v1 by a team of researchers at the University …
Christine Chan
Mar 21, 20191 min read


Oddbods Go-Kards funds successfully on Kickstarter!
Oddbods go-Kards – a card powered racing party board game, developed by Playware Hobbies, a subsidiary of Playware Studios, in collaboration with One Animation of Singapore. The game achieved its funding target of SGD 20K within the first week …
Christine Chan
Dec 4, 20181 min read


The Art & Science of Game-based Learning
Our Creative Director Siddharth Jain was invited to moderate a panel on “The Art & Science of Game-based Learning” at the In.LAB (at the Life Long Learning Institute) with Noah Falstein (Founder and CEO of the Inspiracy) and Asst. Prof Azilawati …
Christine Chan
Sep 30, 20181 min read
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