Learnroll
Delivering Advanced and Immersive Learning Experience

Sushmita Chatterjee Founder, CEO and CTO, Learnroll

Sushmita wanted to change this status quo. Her mission was to enhance health and life sciences learning/training for promoting more positive outcomes. At the same time, Sushmita wanted to broaden the scope of leveraging digital technology to understand more about the human body and health. “My father had an untimely demise from a heart attack, and the only source of information was a verbal assessment by the doctor,” she says. This experience provided an added impetus for Sushmita to dive deeper into finding the right technologies that can revolutionize knowledge exchange in the health and life sciences industry— from surgery to patient education. And so, she interacted extensively with the educator community and probed into the ways she could bring better engagement in the medical teaching and learning techniques that also saves time and cost.

It was during this time she participated in the New York VR (NYVR) meetup—a community fostering the development and application of virtual reality (VR) technology. “It was still the dawn of the AR/VR industry, and I suddenly had this thought: why can’t we use VR to transform the learning spaces? The technology could evidently enhance engagement and reduce the time taken for learning,” Sushmita enthuses. “And if that contextual information is mined via AI/ML, it can also help us get closer to finding the symptoms and reason as well as allow us to update content with latest available data.” The thought later translated into establishing her EdTech startup, Learnroll, in 2015. Learnroll piloted its Health VR applications with high school students and found out first-hand that VR lessons were instrumental in addressing the practical use of case-based scenarios, reducing the time to learn and enhancing the engagement factor including transformation/ change of those students who were not fond of S.T.E.M. subjects using traditional delivery methods.

By 2019, the firm also started getting a lot of inbound requests from the healthcare community. “While interacting with the healthcare professionals to develop content, they started realizing that Learnroll can revolutionize education and training for continuing medical education as well,” notes Sushmita, founder, CEO, and CTO of Learnroll. The firm consequently pivoted its focus on the broad spectrum of healthcare and medical education and training.

By leveraging AR/VR, Learnroll puts forth advanced interactive virtual environments today that deliver immersive teaching and learning experiences. Be it for students doing continuing medical education or for patients wanting to know their health condition, Learnroll’s platforms enable educators/trainers/ doctors to deliver extremely vivid and near-real VR or 3D content to improve their comprehension. “Learnroll can enable diverse use cases in learning spaces that would not be possible in a face-to-face setup,” Sushmita adds.

Classimmerse – Transforming Continuing Health and Medical Education

Notably, Learnroll’s Classimmerse is a one-of-its-kind no-code plug and play SaaS platform in the healthcare simulation space.

Classimmerse is indeed changing the very concept of simulation with its haptic enablement technology. The platform allows the users to interact with and examine 3D models (both static and rigged) deeply; they can pick the models up, rotate them to inspect from every angle, or even throw them off into a distance (gamification fun components like throwing models to floor, music, visual effects). One can also add interactive ontology labeling, 2D CT/MRI, images/videos slides, quizzes, voice enabled (text to voice) and mock tests to make the content suited to busy professionals with timers, to prevent cost waste prior to formal exams, after a simulation exercise. And thanks to its development on the Unity ecosystem—the world’s leading cross-platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content—users can download the learning modules from the cloud anytime, anywhere; and indulge in self-paced learning at home or class using low-cost standalone (Oculus Business VR headsets) currently

VRMedHub – On Demand Collaborative Medical Training Rooms Service

Interestingly, Learnroll will also offer VRMedHub—collaborative web-enabled virtual training on-demand service rooms. Leveraging AR, VR, and 3D technologies, VRMedHub allows training providers to create customized 3D spaces for their audience that facilitate personalized, expansive, and secure collaborations and training. VRMedHub can be used for low cost, seamless and faster low to medium fidelity content production in nurses’ training, physician and physician assistants’ collaborative training, and patient and caregiver education.

By leveraging AR/VR, Learnroll puts forth advanced interactive virtual environments today that deliver immersive teaching and learning experiences

Incredibly, this kinesthetic mode of learning—using visuals, voices, and haptics—put forth by these two platforms can indeed be instrumental for students who have reading difficulties. On a similar note, these platforms also address the motion sickness concerns of VR simulations, enabling learners to avail the gamification features on the platforms while being perfectly seated. Following suit is the platform’s advanced analytics that gains insights from learners’ experiences and helps trainers iteratively build content that is ideal and engaging enough.

Blazing a Trail Ahead

With remote learning becoming the norm today, Sushmita believes that her company is barely scratching the surface of a trailblazing innovation; Learnroll still has much work left to do in the healthcare and medical education and training space. A testament to this is Learnroll’s ongoing efforts to integrate AI capabilities like natural language processing (NLP).

Sushmita notes “Our future plans are to add advanced medical haptics, advanced medical viewer and AI/ML notes, advanced auscultation(audio), and integrate based on industry healthcare & simulation standards.”

“The time is now for the healthcare and medical community to transform healthcare and medical learning and training with VR/AR, and Learnroll wants to be at the helm of it,” she concludes.