FIRSTLIGHT
Rehearsal for the crews Europe can't train fast enough.
VR, mixed reality and AI training for defence units, built on the crawl–walk–run method armies already use. By VR Express.
New counter-drone systems are arriving. The crews who'll run them have never faced a real swarm.
Live drills need airspace, real drones and weeks of planning, so a crew gets a handful of runs a year. A real attack gives them seconds.
Firstlight turns your console, your coastline and your drills into a place to rehearse.
We 3D-scan the real equipment and site, load your procedures and threat scenarios, and deliver it on standard headsets or in a browser. For the pilot, we bring the headsets.
STEP 1 · CRAWL
Learn the console until your hands know it.
Each operator practises every switch and procedure in VR at their own pace, with a guide at their shoulder. Mistakes cost nothing, and every one is logged.
Radar · Three low contacts, from the sea.
AI instructor · Inject: GPS lost.
Radio · Fisherman reports a drone over his boat.
Crew lead · Take the northern sector.
STEP 2 · WALK
Rehearse the drill. The AI instructor never plays it the same way twice.
Each run the AI changes the threat: more contacts, lost GPS, jamming, a frightened fisherman on the radio. The crew answers with its real procedure.
STEP 3 · RUN
Now the whole crew, in their real room, with the threat overlaid.
Mixed reality keeps the room and the people real and adds the drones. Three operators, one timeline, and their heart rates on the instructor's screen.
STEP 4 · DEBRIEF
Every decision timed. Every run replayed.
The after-action review shows each operator's calls on the map and on the clock, so the instructor teaches the gap, not the average.
Stress is part of the drill. So is coming down from it.
Short biofeedback breathing after hard runs, and stress levels the instructor can see. Anything clinical goes to your medical staff: we provide tools, not therapy.
OP-07 · procedures 9 / 9 · runs 100 · median reaction improving · READY
SAMPLE DATADay one on the real coast. It feels like the hundredth.
Each operator gets a readiness record: procedures passed, runs completed, reaction times and weak spots. Commanders see who is ready and who needs ten more runs.
Same method. Other crews.
Firstlight works the same way for any team that has a procedure, a place and a bad day to prepare for.
VR Express · XR studio in Sofia since 2015 · 6,701+ people through our VR experiences · 30+ multinational clients · VR onboarding for 200+ Postbank employees · UBB 'VR Tower of Success' recruitment game
Training, readiness and care. We don't build targeting or weapons systems. Human in the loop, sources shown, AI always disclosed.
Headset-agnostic (OpenXR) · crawl step in the browser, no install · high-security headsets on request · runs on-premises or air-gapped, nothing leaves your site · GDPR-aware.
Browser demonstration · Requests are not sent or stored.