Near-Life Interactive Features

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.

AI prompt-based, interactive experience generator

AI Scenario design

Our new integrated AI-assisted tool enables users to create immersive experiences simply by describing what they want to build.

AI prompt-based video generator

AI Video generator

With our built-in AI video generator, you can turn descriptions into 2D videos ready to enhance your interactive learning scenarios.

AI prompt-based 360 panoramic image generator

AI Image generator

Create 2D and 360° images from text prompts and embed them seamlessly into your branching scenarios, simulations, and role-play experiences.

Icon of a quiz tick boxes and a pen

Quizzes

With the quiz overlay, you can embed quizzes directly into your branching scenarios to make learning experiences more interactive and engaging.

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

Buttons, hotspots, text and icons

Choose what happens when your users click: branching to another video, skipping to a new point in the video, opening a pop-up or even a new URL. You can 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.

Easy 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

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

Set a pass/fail score for the scenario and set scores against the different choices users make. 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. 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’. There is also the option to invite unlimited ‘reviewers’ - 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.

Book a demo - Why not book a demo now to find out more, take a tour - or start your own free trial.

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Why not book a demo now to find out more, take a tour - or start your own free trial.

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