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The player stands in front of a bar with a variety of drink ingredients and uses hands as move
controllers to make the requested drinks. Each stage has 3 modes: Practice teaches how to
make that setting’s four drinks; Challenge tasks the player with making the most drinks in 10
How you learn
minutes; Free is for practicing. Challenge modes unlock when the previous stage’s challenge
is beaten. The player learns how to make progressively more difficult beverages, scoring or
losing points based on accuracy and velocity and the ability to juggle bottles and glasses.
User-friendliness Pedagogic orientation Applicability potential
First bartending job simula- Gaming and learning app Suitable to teach and train
tor in VR Learning-by-doing peda- to SEN learners
Possibility to learn the gogic methodology
steps to make drinks More than 16 drinks’ re-
Possibility to juggle with ceipts to learn
STRENGTHS:
equipment Realistic professional bar-
Possibility to compete with tending rules and condi-
other players tions
A good workout for the
brain (memory, precision)
! English language only ! Only about making cock- ! Teachers and trainers need
tails to train motion and preci-
! Slightly blur graphic
! No interaction neither with sion to use it successfully
! Requires a spacious play
the environment nor with with SEN learners
WEAKNESSES: area of at least 2.5m x 2m
customers ! Possible difficulties for
! Risk of motion sickness
some SEN learners be-
cause it requires dexterity,
precision, memory
Translate the app in more Add serving beer, coffees Customize it for different
languages and add subs and no-alcoholic drinks kinds of SEN learners’
OPPORTUNITIES: Reduce the required play Add interactions with cus- needs
area of the game tomers and processing pay- Tailor-make it for WBL
Improve cost-quality ratio ments preparation
! The developer does not ! The player gets bored or ! Lack of resources to access
improve the app, nor re- misunderstands bartend- the app
THREATS: duce its price ing, loosing motivation for ! The app is removed from
this job the market
Bartender Simulator VR is a suitable app to facilitate SEN learners to access a position of bar-
tender as this immersive VR game has been conceived to be both a realistic job simulator and
a bartending course. Using this app, they learn how to make some real drinks’ recipe while
Summary of find-
having a feel of what working as bartender means. The game expects the player to memorize
ings and recom-
quite a few drinks and exactly how to make them. Hence, it probably suites certain groups of
mendations:
SEN learners better than others. Those who have coordination difficulties, as well as those
who tend to be anxious, may experience some difficulties pouring and adding the ingredients
in the right order or under pressure.
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