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What's New in Bodyswaps

Explore recent and upcoming releases below

Current app version: 3.6

What's new in 3.6?

New Roleplay Template

Public Speaking 

The Public Speaking Roleplay is an upgraded, standalone version of the existing simulator exercise. Key new features include:

Audience Q&A — After their presentation, learners can face questions from the audience. Educators can set the Q&A as mandatory, optional, or disabled, and choose the difficulty level of questions. An "audience concerns" setting shapes the nature of the questions asked — for example, setting this to "general public" versus "businesspeople" will produce very different lines of questioning. Questions themselves are generated by AI based on the content of the learner's presentation.

New auditorium environment — A fourth environment joins the existing classroom, boardroom, and public forum. The auditorium can seat around 100 avatars, with the number of visible audience members scaling based on device performance.

Full learner report — A complete report is now generated upon completion.

Improved slide uploads — An enhanced slide upload experience for learners and organisations.

Resources:

New Roleplay Features

AI Coach

Learners can now be guided through a self-reflection activity at the end of an AI Roleplay. Rather than reviewing performance, the AI Coach asks a series of coaching questions to help learners draw their own conclusions and set personal goals — building deeper thinking and self-efficacy.


Educators can customise the coaching questions, control whether learners can skip the activity, and choose whether a transcript is submitted to the learner report. Coaching takes place in a dedicated environment, separate from the roleplay itself.

Read more here 🔗

 

 

Dental Environment 

Our new Dental environment is now available in our Active Listening in Healthcare, Open Conversation and De-escalation templates. 



New Experience & Support Features

User Onboarding

When logging on for the first time, users will now go through a new onboarding process. The updates to the process include a new 'How to use Bodyswaps' section, updated microphone testing and the removal of the HELLO activity. 

You are also now able to add in a Bodyswaps onboarding as an assigned module. 

 

Updated User Avatars

We're now releasing an upgrade to some of our user avatars, with this update being finalised in 3.7.

 

What's New in Bodyswaps Go?

Updated Navigation Bar

Bodyswaps Go has a fresh new look!

You can now navigate key tabs more clearly, and find your Account Settings and Links & Resources in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.

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 🔗

 

Multi-Editor Ability

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 🔗

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: 
  • Roleplay Preview Chat - You can now test and refine your roleplay experience directly in Bodyswaps Go, using voice or typing, before it goes live.
  • New Voice Mode - In 3.5, we introduced a new automatic reply voice mode, in addition to the turn-based flow. 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. Read more here 🔗
  • 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 🔗
  • AI Roleplay Builder Assistant - more information in Features/Platform below 
  • 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
  • Professional Conversations

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

 

Customisation Guides

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