Train for the worst day. Without the agent.
A full decontamination station in a headset. Contamination that persists until it is treated. A crew that answers. A score after every run.
Vehicle decontamination
Survey, pre-wet, apply, hold contact time, rinse, monitor. A contaminated truck that only comes clean when the drill is done right.
Explore VDS →Personnel decontamination
Eight stations from the dirty side to the clean side. The trainee is the soldier: layers off in order, across the control line, through the monitor, respirator last.
Explore PDS →The drill is real. The agent is not.
A live exercise costs a vehicle, a water point, a crew and a day — and still cannot use the agent. In the headset the contamination behaves like the agent, and the trainee runs the drill until it is instinct.
Zero live agent
Persistent contamination, decontaminant chemistry and contact time — simulated, scored, and safe.
Solo, or as a team
Alone with an AI crew, ten runs before lunch — or one headset per officer, each in their own seat on the lane.
Every step scored
Order, coverage, contact time, technique and timings — logged per officer and replayed in the headset.
No internet. No cloud.
Solo runs on the headset alone. Team lanes run on a closed local network from the instructor's laptop.
Brief. Execute. Review.
Brief
The instructor opens a lane from the roster, picks the drill and the conditions. New officers get a five-minute VR familiarisation first.
Execute
Hands on the wand, the suit, the monitor. The crew responds to orders. The contamination responds to the chemistry.
Review
A score and a timeline the moment the run ends — who did what, what was missed, where time went. One row per officer per drill.
One headset. Nothing else.
CBRN VR runs standalone on Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Charge it, put it on, train. For team lanes, an instructor laptop hosts the session over a closed local network — a full decontamination range in a daypack.
Questions
What is CBRN VR?
CBRN VR is a virtual reality training simulator for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) decontamination. It puts a trainee inside a working vehicle decontamination station (VDS) or personnel decontamination station (PDS) on a Meta Quest 3 headset, where they carry out the full drill with their own hands and are scored on every step. It is developed by Noventis in Pune, India.
Which decontamination drills does it cover?
Two today. Vehicle decontamination (VDS): surveying, pre-wetting, applying decontaminant, holding contact time, rinsing and monitoring a contaminated military vehicle in a working decontamination bay. Personnel decontamination (PDS): an eight-station detailed troop decontamination lane in which the trainee is the soldier — gear decontamination, overboots, gloves and hood, overgarment removal, crossing the liquid control line, monitor survey with spot decontamination, respirator removal, mask decontamination and reissue. Both run on the same procedure engine, so further CBRN drills can be added.
Why train decontamination in VR instead of on the ground?
A live decontamination exercise needs a vehicle, a water point, decontaminant, a full crew and hours of set-up and clean-up — and it still cannot use a real agent. In VR the contamination is real to the trainee: it persists where it has not been treated, water alone will not clear it, contact time matters, and poor doffing technique carries agent onto the layer beneath. A trainee can run the drill as many times as it takes, alone or with a team, with no consumables and a scored debrief after every run.
Can a whole crew train together?
Yes. In solo mode an AI crew fills every other role. In team mode each officer wears their own Meta Quest 3 and takes a seat on the lane — pump, decontaminant, monitor, station NCO and so on — while an instructor laptop hosts the session over a closed local network, with a console, a spectator camera and a results export per officer per drill. If an officer takes the headset off, the AI covers the seat.
What hardware does CBRN VR need?
A Meta Quest 3 or Meta Quest 3S headset per trainee. Solo drills run entirely on the headset — no PC, no cables, no internet connection and no cloud account. Team lanes add one instructor laptop as the local host on a closed Wi-Fi network. Records are saved on the devices.
How is a trainee assessed?
Every action in the drill is logged: the order of steps, time on each station, coverage of contaminated surfaces, decontaminant contact time, doffing technique on every pull, monitor results and any critical fault such as crossing the control line contaminated. The simulator turns that log into a score and an after-action review — with a timeline and, for PDS, a kit-layout board showing the residual contamination on every garment — that the trainee and the instructor walk through immediately, in the headset.
Who is CBRN VR for?
Armed forces CBRN units, civil defence and disaster-response forces, fire and HAZMAT services, nuclear and chemical industry emergency teams, and training academies that teach decontamination procedures.
Does CBRN VR follow a specific doctrine?
The drills are authored as data, not hard-coded, and are reviewed with serving CBRN subject-matter experts. Station layouts, step order, timings and pass criteria can be adapted to a unit’s own standard operating procedures.
How do we see it?
Write to sales@noventis.ai. We will arrange a demonstration on a Meta Quest 3 — in person in India or remotely — and scope a pilot with your training staff.
See it in a headset.
Write to sales@noventis.ai with your unit or organisation and the drills you train. We will arrange a demonstration on a Meta Quest 3 and scope a pilot with your instructors.