About
Built by people who run a training floor.
AGOGE VR comes out of a working training company, not a games studio.
Threat Dynamics
AGOGE VR is built by Threat Dynamics, a firearms and use-of-force training company that has operated out of Sherwood, Oregon since 2009.
Threat Dynamics trains civilians and professionals on live-fire ranges and in simulators — including a 300-degree simulator, a single-screen simulator, and VR. The approach has never been tactical theatre. It is ordinary people learning to make good decisions under stress, which is the same problem AGOGE VR is built for.
Ryan Tuttle
Ryan Tuttle spent eight years as an infantryman, deploying to Iraq from 2003 through 2005, and has spent the years since teaching civilians and professionals to make decisions under stress.
Why we built this
Most VR training for this work is a shooting simulator with a badge on it. It trains one skill — hit the right target, fast — and that skill is a small fraction of what the job actually asks.
The calls that end careers and land in court are the other ones: the person in crisis, the trespasser who won’t leave, the argument in a parking lot at 2 a.m. Those are decided by what an officer says, how they stand, and which tool they reach for — long before anything is drawn. Scripted training cannot rehearse that, because a script tests recall: a trainee learns the branch points, then learns the answers.
So we built the part that was missing. Our scenario characters generate their responses in the moment, from a character brief rather than a dialogue tree. They react to tone and to specific words. The same scenario runs differently the second time, which is what makes it practice rather than a memory test.
The hardest part of the job was the part no one could rehearse.
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