News & Updates

Latest news, fresh training modules, and updates coming from the world of Firefighter VR

📅 April 2026
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Fire Extinguisher Updates and VR Know-How

Various enhancements for the Extinguisher Training alongside new hardware for our existing customers.

  • New metal wastebasket integrated as a fire source
  • More realistic fire scenarios – fire spreads dynamically now
  • Increased safety awareness: Injuries are simulated if the standing distance is too short
  • Hardware update: Newly designed adapter on the trigger of the extinguisher (free of charge!)
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📅 February 2026
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Technology that rescues: Your training edge with Firefighter VR

Hardware and software updates making your VR training inherently more stable and lifelike.

  • Screencast feature through HDMI: Unwavering, fluid, and mapped in higher resolution
  • Battery headstrap to accommodate extended runtimes
  • Fire Extinguisher update: E-Scooter & Lithium-ion battery fire additions
  • Injury mapping for insufficient safety distances and extinguishing via the new hardware trigger
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📅 November 2025
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Control via Bluetooth Keyboard: Trainer / Instructor Mode

Effective immediately, instructors can direct the VR training environments via a Bluetooth keyboard – making practice drills remarkably more efficient.

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Fire Extinguisher

Fire Extinguisher Update: Feedback from the A+A implemented

Grounded on user feedback from the A+A trade fair in Düsseldorf:

  • Augmented grease explosion proportions
  • Room fogging dynamics when discharging the powder extinguisher
  • Revamped buttons and toggles mapping to superior usability
  • Immediate selection of fire sources → streamlined onboarding
  • Fire origin always spawns in uniform alignment
  • New kitchen setup and E-Scooter fire variants
🔗 To the Fire Extinguisher Training
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A+A

Review: A+A 2025

Super successful! Thank you immensely for the spectacular joint action alongside the corporate fire brigade association, partner establishments, and every attendee. Your feedback was phenomenal!

Fire safety assistant education turned out to be a major topic – Fire Safety Assistant 2.0: Training utilizing VR technology.

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Waldbrand

Wildfire Bounce Update

Major improvements inside the Wildfire Training allowing even more realistic feedback and maximized performance.

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📅 October 2025
Scouting

NEW: FFVR Scouting

The novel Scouting Training has arrived! Systematically drilling reconnaissance and situational awareness – available right now.

New Training
Accident Securing

NEW: FFVR Accident Securing

Available immediately: The Accident Securing Training. Professionally securing incident sites – virtually practiced.

New Training
First Aid

Update: FFVR First Aid

Our First Aid Training has been revised introducing enhanced workflows and novel scenarios.

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A+A

A+A Announcement

We'll be present at the A+A trade fair in Düsseldorf! Come by and test Firefighter VR live. Catch an inaugural glimpse at the brand-new FFVR Scouting scenario.

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📅 September 2025
CPR

Update: CPR / Reanimation

Our CPR module achieved a momentous update: Optimized sequences, enhanced visualization and strikingly lifelike feedback yielding effective resuscitation coaching.

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Hose

New Module: Hose

Available immediately: The Hose module. In this scenario, emergency crews instruct the reliable and field-tested maneuverability of hose lines amid a virtual deployment. Complementing this, an inherently stiffened hose accessory piece can be procured.

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Playground

New Playground Level: Single-Family Home

Venturing even nearer to reality: The brand new Playground Level 'Single-Family Home' delegates flexible rehearsal drills and tailor-made sandbox situations uniquely crafted by you.

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A+A

A+A Announcement

We'll participate at the A+A occurring from November 4th to 7th 2025 in Düsseldorf – hosted at the corporate fire brigade association's booth within Hall 1 / E55..E78. Come visit us and pilot Firefighter VR locally!

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Firesaber

Teaser: Firesaber

A tiny glimpse: Featuring the Firesaber, a pristine, gamified training component operates on the horizon. Learn more about this soon!

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📅 August 2025
Extinguisher

Spotlight on the Fire Extinguisher

This month concentrates entirely on our Fire Extinguisher Training – Updates, new features and pivotal community feedback interactions.

Jump Cushion

Update: Jump Cushion

The Jump Cushion Training was heavily expanded:

  • Now inclusive of synthesized dubbing / voice mapping
  • Curated Training Mode revealing supplementary intel
  • Action Mode highlighting an ablaze bed alongside taller building profiles
  • Acoustically superior sound design
  • Performance metrics boosted
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Training Courses

Update: Training Courses 2025

The Training Courses obtained a notable update parameter:

  • Now mapping integrated voice tracks
  • New competitive game mode: Time Trial
  • Chronology checkpoints functioning persistently throughout the rush
  • Climax zone greeting users with confetti and time reports
  • Pioneering performance boosts
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Sprinkler

New: Sprinkler

The paramount Sprinkler Training entails:

  • Exacting, authentic mechanical footprint imitating real sprinkler blueprints
  • Assorted routine scenarios bridging operations and mechanical maintenance
  • Trigger cascades identical to actuality, but devoid of physical peril
  • Turn-by-turn guidance paths
  • Find-the-error debugging mode
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Planspiel

New parameter embedded inside Tactical Exercise: Flood

The Tactical Exercise Sandbox procures a brand-new phenomenon:

  • Flood object (autonomously positionable across boundaries)
  • Assorted variances indicating diverse water altitudes
  • Grounded directly upon the Google Earth integration backbone
  • Tactical occlusion affecting ingress routes
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📅 July 2025
Turntable Ladder

Soaring Horizons – Turntable Ladder Training available now!

Our remodeled Turntable Ladder simulation has navigated online, yielding numerous features targeting an inherently closer approach to truth:

  • Two subordinate personas: Operator (rearward) and Basket contingent
  • Clearance and hazard verification mandated prior to ascension
  • Newly conceived seating stance flanking the rear of the ladder carrier
  • Revamped navigational mechanism via virtual joysticks
  • Recently instituted: Water monitor integrations & Intercom systems
  • New undertaking: Executing extinguishment directly into fenestrated breaches
  • Empirically accurate derivation of the deployed outriggers
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Airport

Forecast: New Airport Training

Available very soon: Our specially engineered training framework for Airport Fire Departments!

Pioneered predominantly for the Fire Training facility at the Leipzig/Halle Airport

  • Pristine digital replicate of the Airbus 300 series boasting profound intricacies
  • Structured instructional journey
  • Simulations involving aperture architectures: passenger hatches, freight doors, APU panels
  • Varied meteorological events and temporal shifting (Day/Night cycle)
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📅 June 2025
PICO 4 Ultra

New Tech – Distinct Potentials

The upgrade targeting PICO 4 Ultra – Live now!

Extinguisher

Update: Fire Extinguisher training for Hazmat Carriers

Our Extinguisher Scenario received a distinct simulation stratum where pilots maneuvering Hazmat logistics can practice suppressing flames amid a lively highway:

  • New layout: Grounding highway ecosystem staging a heavy-goods truck
  • Combustion of the motor block alongside tire flames
  • Nuanced flame propagation dependent exclusively on spatial point of origin
  • Applicable tactics: Sparse bursts (tire combustion) versus constant flow mapping (motor block)
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Turntable Ladder

Forecast: New Turntable Version inbound

The successive generation characterizing our Turntable Ladder simulation is undergoing construction:

  • Two pristine role divisions: Machine operator (rear) and Crewmate (bucket)
  • Examine radii adjacent to barricades and ascertain hazards
  • Modified helm logic driven by spatial joysticks
  • Water monitors alongside intercom architectures thoroughly united
  • Pristine directive: Suppressing infernos breaching window facades
  • Support struts executing mechanically authentic unfolding curves
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