Valley General Hospital: NiVR (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Oculus Rift Only
Price at Time Of Review: £32.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Training and Skills
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: When it comes to learning a life-saving skill or refreshing existing knowledge in a medical environment, no product exists like Valley General Hospital. Valley General simulations are accurately representative of hospital environments. We present the truest to life training scenario from the audio environment to equipment interaction and lighting to accessories. Interactions are closely modelled on the real life-saving equipment for the most accurate and available learning.

Review: The only real reason I am giving ‘Valley General Hospital: NiVR’ a Bronze rating is because it only works in the Oculus Rift, a platform that is pretty much dead already. This is of course a training program for a Non-Invasive Ventilator and this program takes you through orientation, briefing, machine setup, ventilation and aftercare. While it is mostly crap overall with text-based instructions and piss-poor animation it might one day save someone’s life and that makes it worth downloading provided you have the need for it (that most people won’t.) But what is the point of a training program for a VR headset you can no longer directly buy?!?