Near-Life has unveiled a significant upgrade to its scenario-based authoring tool at MediaCity’s Immersive Technology Hub – introducing integrated AI-assisted authoring capabilities designed to enhance behavioural simulation and decision-based training.

Near-Life is a platform for learning teams to create high quality interactive video and VR simulations that scale role-play, improve real-world decisions, and reduce organisational risk.

At the core of the update is a new integrated AI-assisted tool that enables users to create immersive experiences simply by describing what they want to build. Learning teams can generate structured branching scenarios, interactive simulations and immersive role-play experiences more efficiently. Using prompt-based inputs, creators can accelerate scenario design and media production while retaining full editorial control over logic, dialogue and assessment.

The upgrade also introduces powerful new media generation capabilities, including batch image creation, AI-assisted 2D video generation and high-quality 360-degree imagery from text prompts.

The development of the upgraded platform has been supported through innovation funding from Greater Manchester’s Business Growth Hub, alongside backing from MediaCity’s Immersive Technology Hub.