Enterprise XR · Production, training, and simulation

2016 · Enterprise client work

At GreyKernel, I led technology across immersive client projects, including JPMorgan Chase’s Mumbai lab for onboarding and training, Anglian Water training software, and VR empathy exercises in Singapore.

My role: Co-founder and CTO
Period: 2016–2021
Status: Enterprise client work

Editorial illustration of a 360-degree location-filming setup, part of GreyKernel’s wider production work.

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OverviewTHE PROJECT

JPMorgan Chase’s Mumbai immersive lab.

For: Employees taking part in onboarding and training experiences.
Outcome: At GreyKernel, we helped set up an immersive lab in JPMorgan Chase’s Mumbai office. It brought together gamified onboarding, cybersecurity and social-engineering experiences, and training applications. The task was to turn learning material into something employees could participate in.

The experienceIN USE

360-degree tours for exploring a real location remotely.

My contribution: As GreyKernel’s co-founder and CTO, I worked on product definition and application architecture, led technical delivery, and coordinated the work with production teams and domain specialists.

Electronics production-facility tour. Enhanced editorial poster; playback shows the original 360-degree footage.

Technical detailsBUILD CHOICES

How it works.

System: The Swissôtel Merchant Court hotel experience and the electronics production-facility tour used filmed environments. Visitors could explore a place remotely; the camera and navigation served a different task from the guided interactions in our training applications.
Key decisions: Choose filming or simulation according to the task. Showing a real location calls for a different approach from letting someone practise a procedure.
Structure the Cycling Without Age exercises around familiar situations, so participants can consider the difficulties an older person may encounter.
Keep the instructor’s role visible in training applications, with a clear path through the material and controls appropriate to the session.
Constraints: Training software has to reflect the procedure being taught. Its interactions and terminology need input from people who know that work.

Cinematic editorial visualization connecting a living room, street crossing, and supermarket in the Cycling Without Age Singapore empathy-training journey — Editorial illustration of the living room, street crossing and supermarket scenarios in Cycling Without Age Singapore’s VR empathy journey.

Looking backPROJECT NOTES

Notes from the project.

JPMorgan Chase’s Mumbai lab brought several learning experiences into one office setting; other engagements involved multi-module training applications and location tours.

Procedure training: Anglian Water

For Anglian Water, we worked on a multi-module training application covering vehicle inspections, safe driving, and safe digging. The content and interactions had to suit the procedures being taught.

Empathy training: Cycling Without Age Singapore

Cycling Without Age Singapore used VR exercises to help younger participants understand some of the difficulties older people face. The scenarios covered a living room, a street crossing, and a supermarket. They gave the learning experience a familiar setting and a basis for discussion afterwards.

Location tours: Swissôtel Merchant Court

The hotel tour belongs to the location-production side of this work. Filming the property let people look around its hospitality spaces remotely.

Original Swissôtel Merchant Court tour footage, moving through the Singapore hotel’s pool and hospitality spaces.

Other technical-learning work

Other work included maritime training for ships and lifeboats in 2021, and a Tata Safari technical-learning system with component overviews, service procedures, documentation, and an instructor mode. We also worked on the Voxel Worlds Apple release pipeline. In each case, my role was to help turn the client’s material and requirements into an application the intended audience could use.

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