Lumeto, a leader in immersive learning technology, has once again pushed boundaries with healthcare simulation’s first customizable AI patients with InvolveXR AI Characters. InvolveXR AI Characters revolutionizes the way users immerse themselves in a world of lifelike virtual patients that can replicate high-fidelity patient simulations and standardized patients. This new AI feature from Lumeto blends advanced artificial intelligence with virtual reality (VR) that offers learners and simulation programs scalable, cost-effective interactive experience unlike any other. This HealthySimulation.com article will explore the key elements and advantages of Lumeto’s InvolveXR AI Characters. Register for tomorrow’s HealthySimulation.com webinar on Using AI and Bloom’s Taxonomy to Create Adaptable XR Clinical Learning Experiences to learn more!
The Vision Behind InvolveXR AI Characters
Lumeto, a pioneer in VR solutions, seeks to redefine how individuals interact with virtual worlds. Historically, healthcare simulation programs have relied on standardized patients, trained professionals who portray specific medical conditions or psychosocial behaviors, to teach learners essential communication, assessment, and crisis management skills. However, these programs are expensive, resource-intensive, and difficult to scale. The integration of a customizable virtual patient with AI that can respond dynamically to each learner’s interaction. InvolveXR AI Characters enable healthcare training programs to scale up with realism and quality. For the first time, simulation directors can deploy immersive, high-fidelity healthcare scenarios that were once limited by high costs and resources.
Lumeto’s goal revolves around the creation of experiences that feel natural, intuitive, and seamless. InvolveXR AI Characters allows users to engage with AI-powered avatars, each designed to simulate human-like behaviors, emotions, and responses. These digital patients offer a sense of authenticity that provides the users with a chance to practice communication skills, social scenarios, and training modules in a controlled, safe, realistic environment. With Lumeto, simulation administrators can implement customizable experiences at a lower cost than traditional high-fidelity healthcare simulators and standardized patient programs. Lumeto’s approach enables academic and healthcare organizations the opportunity to prepare their healthcare workforce for real-world challenges. Whether in healthcare or education, AI Characters foster an environment where users can hone their skills without real-world consequences.
What Sets InvolveXR AI Characters Apart
InvolveXR AI Characters represent a departure from static, pre-programmed VR patients often found in the VR industry. Lumeto has utilized sophisticated AI algorithms that enable these characters to learn and adapt rather than follow a strict script to deliver real-time verbal, non-verbal, and physiological responses. This capability allows healthcare programs to train more learners, across more scenarios, at a drastically lower cost than traditional standardized patient models.
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AI-Driven Virtual Patients Created from Plain Text: Educators, Simulation Designers and Trainers can generate fully interactive virtual patients using simple text descriptions to ensure a lifelike training experience that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
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Seamless Real-Time Conversations: AI characters engage learners in naturally evolving conversations based on their actions within the simulation. This feature enables healthcare professionals to hone essential communication and psychosocial interaction skills in a safe, realistic environment.
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Physiology-based Patient Actions and Symptoms: The virtual characters simulate a wide range of medical conditions, such as stroke or cardiac arrest, challenging learners to perform real-time clinical assessments and critical thinking in line with changing patient states.
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Realistic Behavioral Non-Verbal Responses: Beyond verbal interactions, AI characters exhibit body language and facial expressions reflective of their psychosocial and physiological condition that helps learners develop key communication, de-escalation, and patient-caregiver engagement skills.
“Many platforms have pre-built scenarios. But Lumeto’s InvolveXR platform offers us the ability to design a simulation and adapt it to our local practice, which is huge. In addition to that, the hands-on support that I’ve been given has been invaluable.” Dr. Barry Smith, Director of Simulation, Department of Education, Queen’s General Hospital, NYC.
“InvolveXR has the versatility that allows me to tailor learning experiences to different groups across the hospital. Its AI system effectively teaches soft skills, like communication, through real-time feedback and personalized learning paths, making education more engaging and impactful.” Mitch Greene, Medical Education and Research Specialist, Academic and Medical Affairs, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre.
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Benefits and Practical Applications Across Various Sectors
- For Learners: Learners can immerse themselves in complex, high-cognition healthcare scenarios with AI characters that respond in real time, to help build and reinforce critical skills such as patient engagement, clinical decision-making, and crisis de-escalation. With the added flexibility of synchronous and asynchronous simulation, learners can train at their own pace to improve confidence and competence.
- For Educators: Educators can focus on facilitation of the learning process, as InvolveXR AI Characters autonomously manage patient responses. This reduces the cognitive burden on trainers in live simulation sessions that allows for a greater emphasis on learner engagement and reflection on patient outcomes.
- For Program Directors: With InvolveXR, healthcare programs can scale their standardized patient training significantly that provides a high-fidelity experience to more learners with fewer resources. Simulation Program Directors can expand their experiential learning opportunities with minimal investment, which leads to improved return on investment (ROI) and broader learner impact. Programs that previously required large teams of standardized patients and complex scheduling can now operate more efficiently at optimized costs.
“The customization is the first thing that drew me to the platform. Not only can I create states and import media ahead of time, I can also change the vitals and states on the fly in response to what the learners are doing. I think the importance of this cannot be overstated as learners always tend to do something you cannot fully anticipate, and so instead of breaking the immersion to guide them back to the prearranged path, I can adapt to what they are doing. The custom prompted AI conversation feature allows me to have the patient know their own history and respond naturally to questions and history gathering by the learners, which increases the immersion even more. We have integrated Lumeto as a regular recurring station in parallel with our high fidelity manikin program, and the feedback from learners has been overwhelmingly positive.” Timothy J. Koboldt, MD, FACEP, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Simulation Director, Emergency Medicine, Fellowship Director, Medical Education & Simulation
University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine.
A Step Toward Realistic, Immersive Training Solutions
Lumeto has made a bold move with the introduction of InvolveXR AI Characters. The combination of AI with VR to develop a platform for healthcare learners and providers that goes beyond conventional training modules. Users can interact with patients that think, react, and adapt, to provide an unparalleled level of engagement and realism for healthcare organizations and academic institutions.
InvolveXR AI Characters bring a new era of flexibility, affordability, and high fidelity to healthcare simulation. With cost-effective scalability, training programs can reach more learners, deliver more simulations, and improve skill development without the logistical challenges or expenses associated with traditional standardized patient programs. Lumeto is proud to lead this transformation, offering a tool that will reshape how healthcare professionals are trained and prepared to excel in real-world clinical environments.
More About Lumeto
Lumeto’s immersive simulation lab, InvolveXR, aims to meaningfully reduce the huge social and financial cost of medical error. Flexible training in virtual simulated environments can improve the preparedness and confidence of clinicians globally. Lumeto operates across the healthcare spectrum, catering to educators and learners at every level of their competency, enhancing learning outcomes tied to individual and team decision-making, problem-solving, de-escalation, and complex or rare procedures. Lumeto is based in Toronto, Canada, and employs a global workforce.
Lumeto is comprised of a team of creative leaders, XR developers, and software engineers who are passionate about how spatial technologies will revolutionize the future of work. The company is an inclusive, positive workplace anchored by our five core values: Learning, Teamwork, Initiative, Transparency, and Designing For Impact.
