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What's New in Bodyswaps

Explore recent and upcoming releases below

Current app version: 3.5

What's new in Bodyswaps Go?

Roleplay Preview Chat

You can now test and refine your roleplay experience directly in Bodyswaps Go, using voice or typing, before it goes live.

Simply save your roleplay customisation in Bodyswaps Go and click the to the Preview box (right hand side of the screen) to interact with your customisation in real time. Adjust your prompts on the fly, perfect the experience, and save time crafting scenarios that feel just right.

Click here to watch a walkthrough 🔗

Click here to access the help article 🔗

 

New Experience & Support Features

You can now collaborate more easily by sharing content edit access with all admins and nominated coaches on your account.

Simply click the settings cog ⚙️ icon at the top of the page when editing either a roleplay or pathway and select your new co-editors from the list. Click Save and it's as simple as that - you're all set to collaborate.

Click here to watch a walkthrough 🔗 

Click here to access the help article 🔗

What was new in 3.5?

New Roleplay Template

Professional Conversations

Can’t find the right interview roleplay in our library? With our Professional Conversations Roleplay, you can simply make your own!

This interview simulator can be customised to suit any kind of professional question-and-answer format, from media interviews to EPA professional discussions and everything in between. Add the details of your simulation using the customisation form on BSGO and our LLM prompts will adapt accordingly.

You can customise the scenario, the AI interviewer, and much more.

Click here to watch the roleplay content trailer 🔗

View of Professional Conversations cover photo in app

 

New Roleplay Features

Introduction of 'body swapping'

After the roleplay, users will now be able to use the new body swapping functionality with multiple camera perspectives (on non-VR) and playback features.

Read more here 🔗

 

New Voice Mode

In 3.5, we're introducing a new automatic reply voice mode, in addition to the turn-based flow that currently exists (and will remain as an option).

With the new mode, learners do not need to press a button to start and stop speaking. The AI character automatically replies when the learner stops speaking - this allows for a more naturalistic conversation but doesn’t like noisy environments.

Read more here 🔗

 

New Accents + Languages 

You can now access the roleplay language English (UK or US), French (FR + CA), German, Portuguese, Spanish (ES + US), Welsh and Polish.

While this isn’t a full app localisation, it allows you to experience the roleplay language and captions in your preferred language.

Read more here 🔗

New Experience & Support Features

User Avatars

We have added 24 additional user avatars selections covering a wider diversity of backgrounds and ages.

 

Support

If users have issues with the app, we’ve added a new diagnostic tool that tests microphone and internet connectivity to support your own troubleshooting.

There is also a new device identifier to help our team find your registered devices in Bodyswaps Go when investigating further. 

Read more here 🔗

 

Content

Previous Releases - AI Roleplays

Customise your own roleplay through a no-code interface and publish to your account library, classes or specific learning pathways.

 

Feature Development Highlights: 
  • AI Roleplay Builder Assistant - more information in Features/Platform below 
  • Available in English and French (version 3.3 and later)
  • New environments added (including a police interview room environment for the De-escalation and Open Conversation roleplays)

 

Templates:
  • Debating 
  • Active Listening in Healthcare
  • Active Listening in the Workplace
  • Job Interview Roleplay
  • Open Conversation - learn more from our showcase webinar
  • Building Rapport
  • De-escalation

Learn more here:

Recent Releases - Bite-sized Activities

We've released new bite-sized activities, ready to be added into your Pathways. 

You can learn more about them in detail in this library overview guide 📙

Recent Releases - Bodyswaps Pathways

  • Self-care and resilience for healthcare professionals 🔗
    • Healthcare professionals are at high risk for burnout, compassion fatigue and stress. Self-care and resilience skills are critical for maintaining clinical effectiveness and patient safety. This pathway provides practical, immediately applicable skills.
  • Fundamentals of therapeutic communication 🔗
    • Previously: Empathy-driven Communication
    • This pathway focuses on developing core communication skills that enable healthcare professionals to deliver patient-centred care. Emphasises the importance of dignity and respect in all patient interactions.
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  • Navigating difficult interactions in healthcare 🔗
    • Previously: Navigating Difficult Patient Interactions
    • This pathway focuses on developing skills to handle sensitive conversations, practice empathy under pressure and manage complex behaviors in challenging healthcare situations.

 

Previous Releases:

 
Learn more here:

Recent Releases - Content Category Restructure

We’ve streamlined our content categories to make it easier to find what you need.

Multiple categories are now merged into one, under clearer titles. Our new Cultural Intelligence Category now includes the following modules:

  • Navigating Microaggressions 
  • Recognizing Privilege 
  • Bias as a Barrier
  • Challenging Behaviour (formerly Gender Inclusion)
  • Understanding Conflict
  • Giving Feedback
  • Resolving Conflict

     

You can always access the latest structure in the Module Library.

Share Feedback + Learn More

If you'd like to learn more about content in the scoping phase, talk to your Customer Success contact today. 

 

We want to hear from you!

We're guided by your feedback and actively encourage you to share your thoughts. 

If you have any comments to share on your roleplay experiences so far or would to see a specific template developed in future, let us know!

Submit feedback here.

Features / Platform

Recent Releases

AI Roleplay Builder Assistant

We've introduced an AI Assistant to our roleplays (excluding Building Rapport) that automatically populates the customization form. To use this feature, simply provide a short description and access the assistant via the dedicated button at the top of the form.

 
AI Roleplay Assignment + UX Improvements
We’ve made numerous changes to the user interface in Bodyswaps Go:
  • Customised AI Roleplays can be directly assigned to a class alongside pathways and modules. 
  • Improved the search and filtering options for roleplays
  • Class assignments can be re-ordered.
  • Class progress screens loading times have been reduced and had general refinements.
 
Pathway Unit Skip + Date Lock Functionality

Educators now have more control, with the ability to designate Pathway units as skippable and/or set a 'lock until' date.


 
Learner Reports

Learner Reports give educators deeper insight into how learners are progressing with Bodyswaps training. Instead of manually tracking performance, reports provide clear, personalised feedback that helps you understand both individual growth and group. Now available for all roleplays.

Learn more here 🔗

 

Quiz & Questionnaire Export
A new feature allows you to download all Quiz & Questionnaire data from a class.
Accessing the Export:
  • Navigate to a class
  • Open the menu dropdown
  • Click "Download Quiz Results"

Learn more here: Quizzes 🔗 and/or Questionnaires 🔗

 

Recent addition: New User Avatars

Following feedback from our community, we've released new user avatars to improve representation. Alongside this initial update, we're continuing to review and expand the number and diversity of user avatars available. 

Watch this space - we have even more on the way!

 

Accessibility Features
At Bodyswaps, we are dedicated to ensuring that our products and services are as inclusive as possible and that no learner is left behind.

Despite the unique challenges of virtual reality, we are committed to following industry best practices.

Our team has been busy developing advanced accessibility features to support every compatible device type in alignment with WCAG2.2 AA standards.

Learn more about the accessibility upgrades here 🔗

 
Class Codes
Simplify the class sign in process and empower your facilitators with our brand new class codes.

These group codes will be valid for one hour at a time and provide even more flexibility on how you add learners to a class - whether they're manually added in advance, they self enrol before the session begins or now, join the class once they're in the app and ready to get started. 

Please note: this feature is only available in the latest version of the Bodyswaps app (2.13.0 or above).

See Class Codes in action here 🔗

Support

Bodyswaps Academy

Across four essential sections, the Bodyswaps Academy covers everything you and your colleagues need to know: from the foundations through to deployment, you'll be an expert in only 40 minutes.

Register Here

 

Live Training Workshops

Join one of our live, virtual onboarding workshops. Held every two weeks and led by one of our expert Customer Success team members, these 60-minute sessions cover key topics to get you ready to deploy.

Register Here

 

Customisation Guides

New content resources to support your roleplay customisation process, now available with Tutor Notes.