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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Okay so perhaps the featured image in this post is an exaggeration. However, if you use any kind of high fidelity VR before you would know that there are wires everywhere. I make the distinction about high fidelity because there are …

A research paper authored by Dr. Lynette Tan of NUS was published in the Online Learning Journal VOL 22, NO 2 (2018) [ISSN: 2472-5730] This study measures the impact of meaningful gaming on students’ motivation in a higher education …

Data is growing at an exponential pace. The 15 GB of free storage that you get from Google drive (which never seems enough) is more than 400 Thousand times the total data storage capacity of the Apollo Guidance …

(Inside the Hololens. Image courtesy: Microsoft) Whether in the comfort of your home, in a restaurant, or on a bus or the subway, seeing people in what I call the praying position is a very familiar sight. Heads …

Fun and engagement are all well and good. Can you train real job skills in games and simulations? In this article we explore 4 ways to design 3D Virtual Reality games where the players can learn and practice …

In today’s marketplace, where competition can come from anywhere, disruption can easily become an existential threat for even the largest corporations. For successful and sustainable businesses constant innovation and evolution across every level of the organization becomes a …

Playware was invited by the Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore to showcase our products and solutions at their e::Volution eLearning event. Playware’s Creative Director Siddharth Jain was also invited to give a talk at the event. The title of his talk was …

The skills-gap is real and exists even within organisations In most organizations, the level of skill and expertise of the workforce can directly be correlated to their performance efficiency and profitability. Often, a gap exists in the desired …