Near-Life Interactive Features

Features

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With Near-Life you can easily transform content into interactive video, VR and gamified experiences.

Near-Life gives content creators the tools to create and share engaging, immersive experiences quickly. Empower viewers to actively engage with content, shape narratives according to their choices and become integral participants, steering the course of the narrative through interactive decision points.

Add your choice of overlays for your users to click-on.

Buttons, hotspots, text and icons

Add your choice of overlays for your users to click-on. You choose what happens when they do: branching to another video, skipping to a new point in the video, opening a pop-up or even a new URL. A simple timeline feature allows you to easily control when your overlays appear.

The easy to use design canvas allows you to drag and drop graph nodes to quickly build out and storyboard branching sequences.

Simple branching design

The easy to use design canvas allows you to drag and drop graph nodes to quickly build out and storyboard branching sequences that you can then add your media to.

Interactive tours - Allow users to experience physical tours, in VR or 2D, as well as exploring topics like onboarding.

Design interactive tours

It’s easy to construct a more map-like diagram to explore. Allow users to experience physical tours, in VR or 2D, as well as exploring topics like onboarding. It’s simple to create tours as an alternative to branching narratives, depending on use case.

Author fully immersive VR content or standard 2D content.

2D, 180 / 360 video or static images

Author fully immersive VR content, standard 2D content or mix media using static slides, images or video. Simply upload your media assets and drag and drop the files into your storyboarded diagram.

Get users to express themselves with the free text input overlay.

Free text input

Get your users to express themselves. Near-Life’s free text input is a handy tool that allows you to do just that. You can choose when and where the text box appears – and for how long.

Track scores and set Pass/Fail.

Add scoring

If tracking a score is important to you, you can set a score against different choices users make and also set a pass / fail score. Near-Life is SCORM compliant so these outcomes can also be communicated to an LMS.

Use skip to time and create chapters in longer videos

Skip to time

Allow users to jump to a particular point in a single video. Ideal for chaptering longer video content.

Allow users to take notes

Notebook

Do you want your users to create their own notes during your interactive video or slide presentation? Simply enable the notebook feature and they can add notes as they go.

Add conditions and achievements for more involved games and simulations.

Conditions and achievements

Build more involved games and simulations with conditions and achievements. Track achievements based on the actions your users take and set conditions for what happens in the future.

Add captions and subtitles

Closed captions and subtitles

Add VTT files to subtitle your interactive videos and experiences - even add different language options for users.

Create pop-ups - Display images and text information or, in VR, add videos that play when an overlay is clicked.

Slide and video pop-ups

Create pop-ups as one of your interaction outcomes. Display images and text information or, in VR, add videos that play when an overlay is clicked.

Add time pressure to choices with a countdown timer.

Time based experiences

Add time pressure to choices users need to make with a countdown timer. Failure to decide can still have consequences by adding default outcomes.

Provide feedback on the choices and interactions users make, these are presented in a bespoke report at the end and can help add richer context.

Feedback and reports

Give feedback on the choices and interactions users make, these are presented in a bespoke report at the end of the experience to add richer context for users and learners.

See the responses of individual users as well as aggregated stats on overall interactions.

Analytics dashboard

See the responses of individual users as well as aggregated stats on overall interactions.

It’s easy to share and embed your interactive video experiences.

Integration options

It’s easy to share your interactive video experiences. You can also integrate with major learning platforms like Moodle, Totara, Canvas and Docebo using the LTI standard. SCORM and xAPI compatibility is also available.

Download your interactive video experience as a SCORM compatible zip file.

Download a zip file

For our Enterprise users, as well as agency / freelance users on an annual CREATOR+ subscription, there is the option to download your interactive video experience as a SCORM compatible zip file.

Save time on versioning with our copy scenario feature.

Copy scenario

Reversion scenarios easily with our copy scenario function.

Enterprise users can have an account with multiple author seats.

Teams

Enterprise users can have an account with multiple author ‘seats’ that are assigned to different team members as needed. There is also the option to invite unlimited ‘reviewers’ to take a look at your projects and scenarios - very helpful when working with multiple stakeholders.

Case Studies

Case studies

Visit case studies and learn how Near-Life is popular for creating interactive, decision-based learning scenarios in areas as diverse as nursing, finance and HR/ management training.

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