Violence in police encounters is too often a failure in effective communications.

The Nucco/Unit9 team worked with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit of Google, Jigsaw, to build a VR-based training program that simulates fast-paced, stressful conversations with angry and emotionally strained people. The goal is to train officers in the skills of de-escalation.

As part of the creative development we built a number of realistic characters, environments and scenarios ranging from a young black man being stopped in his car, to a young woman suffering a mental breakdown.

Created using motion capture and photogrammetry techniques to deliver gaming levels of fidelity, the experience also uses natural language processing and AI to empower a conversation between trainee and digital characters.