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Business Engineering Corporation (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Masakazu Haneda; hereinafter referred to as "B-EN-G") is pleased to announce that Nagaoka Chutoku University (Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture) has introduced the VR learning system "mcframe MOTION VR-learning" (hereinafter referred to as "VR-learning").
By introducing this system, Nagaoka Sotoku University has been able to conduct exercises using VR teaching materials for nursing education, providing practical, immersive learning that was not possible with traditional educational methods.

Today we published an article on the case study on the following website:
■URL
https://www.mcframe.com/case/sutoku-u

■ Background of introduction
Nagaoka Sutoku University is a nursing university in the Chuetsu region of Niigata Prefecture that is responsible for training health, medical, and welfare professionals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the strain on the field, the university has had fewer practical training opportunities, making it difficult to provide students with sufficient learning opportunities. In addition, the university also faced the challenge of making it difficult to create flexible scenarios that crossed learning areas with conventional VR teaching materials that used full CG.

■Reasons for choosing VR-learning

• Ability to in-house develop VR teaching materials for integrated practical exercises covering multiple learning areas
• Flexibility to prepare teaching materials according to curriculum progress and expected scenarios, which is difficult with ready-made VR teaching materials
• Reducing the gap between exercises and practical training by using live-action footage as teaching materials

■Introduction effects

• VR teaching materials will be used to supplement the practical training opportunities that have decreased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring learning opportunities
• Teachers themselves can edit the VR teaching materials, allowing them to flexibly create scenarios that foster practical application skills in integrated practical exercises and other scenarios tailored to learning goals.

■Customer comments
We thought that VR-learning could be widely applied because it allows us to create teaching materials based on scenarios we have invented and prepare teaching materials in line with the progress of the curriculum. In addition, live-action VR images can reproduce almost the same clinical situations. We thought that immersive and realistic teaching materials could reduce the gap between exercises and practical training.
The places and time for practical training are extremely limited. For example, practical training in operating rooms is not something that can be secured for all students, even at our university, which has a medical corporation within the group, and it is not always possible to provide equal opportunities to everyone. We believe that it is important to turn these valuable opportunities into VR teaching materials and provide more equal learning opportunities as a future initiative.

About mcframe MOTION VR-learning
VR-learning is one of the products in the "mcframe IoT" series developed by B-EN-G. Using VR teaching materials created based on images taken with a 360-degree camera, learners can train while experiencing the experience through a VR head-mounted display (HMD), and it is used for safety education, work training, etc. Since its release in 2017, it has been introduced to over 90 companies in a variety of industries.

For details on mcframe MOTION VR-learning, please see
https://www.mcframe.com/product/motion/vr-learning
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■About Business Engineering Corporation
Business Engineering uses IT to support the digital transformation of customers, mainly in the manufacturing industry. We have a strong track record in consulting and support services ranging from IT planning to system construction, implementation, and operation, as well as the sale and implementation of our in-house developed package software "mcframe." We also use data accumulated in core business systems (ERP), supply chains (SCM), IoT, etc. to help with system sophistication and kaizen activities. We have five overseas subsidiaries in China (Shanghai), Thailand (Bangkok), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and the United States (Chicago), and we provide products and services to companies expanding overseas while supporting them both in Japan and locally, helping them solve their management issues.

For more information about Business Engineering Corporation
https://www.b-en-g.co.jp/
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