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The Social Engineer
The Award Winning Virtual Reality Game
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PRODUCTS & PROJECTS

A SELECTION OF OUR LATEST PROJECTS & WORKS IN PROGRESS

The Social Engineer

Award-winning immersive educational game in virtual reality, to raise awareness and sensitize players about social engineering.

  • The player impersonates a penetration tester and conducts security audits in virtually simulated workplaces.
  • The game consists of a detailed game world containing distinct missions that require the player to apply different social engineering attack methods.
  • Nominated for several awards and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

The Social Engineer

Award-winning immersive educational game in virtual reality, to raise awareness and sensitize players about social engineering.

  • The player impersonates a penetration tester and conducts security audits in virtually simulated workplaces.
  • The game consists of a detailed game world containing distinct missions that require the player to apply different social engineering attack methods.
  • Nominated for several awards and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

fAinance democratized

Artificial Intelligence revolutionizes Finance.

  • We provide state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence to provide timely suggestions on a wide range of stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. These will be continuously updated and enhanced.
  • A web application, as well as a smartphone application for Android and iOS, are under development.
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fAinance democratized

Artificial Intelligence revolutionizes Finance.

  • We provide state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence to provide timely suggestions on a wide range of stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. These will be continuously updated and enhanced.
  • A web application, as well as a smartphone application for Android and iOS, are under development.
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QuestionnaireToolkit

Asset for the cross-platform game engine Unity.

  • QuestionnaireToolkit is an all-in-one tool to create questionnaires, surveys, and simple UI forms for VR, Desktop, and Mobile applications inside Unity.
  • It eases the implementation of sophisticated questionnaires and accelerates the overall development process of an application as developers can focus on other important app-specific features instead.

QuestionnaireToolkit

Asset for the cross-platform game engine Unity.

  • QuestionnaireToolkit is an all-in-one tool to create questionnaires, surveys, and simple UI forms for VR, Desktop, and Mobile applications inside Unity.
  • It eases the implementation of sophisticated questionnaires and accelerates the overall development process of an application as developers can focus on other important app-specific features instead.

inSURE

AR meets Insurance – As part of the Ekipa Deutschland 4.0 Challenge we developed an innoative user-centered AR smartphone app with a focus on usability and the use of innoative technologies in close collaboration with Gothaer.

  • Construction and pitch of AR app concept for use in the insurance industry.
  • Implementation and first evaluation of a functional technical AR app prototyp.
  • Winner of the Ekipa Deutschland 4.0 Challenge whose goal is to promote innovative concepts and ideas for the digital future of business and society.

AR meets Insurance

We developed an innovative concept for a user-centered smartphone app with a focus on usability and with the use of innovative technologies like AR as part of the Ekipa Deutschland 4.0 Challenge. We are full of anticipation for the final in March 2022.

Stay tuned for updates!

Neon Music Drums

Music rhythm game for virtual reality.

  • Hit the light-up neon drum at the right moment in rhythm to the music.
  • Over 50 built-in songs and opportunity to play with personal songs.
  • Five drum sets and three game modes included.
  • Collect stars to unlock more songs and beat your personal high score. 

Neon Music Drums

Asset for the cross-platform game engine Unity.

  • Hit the light-up neon drum at the right moment in rhythm to the music.
  • Over 50 built-in songs and opportunity to play with personal songs.
  • Five drum sets and three game modes included.
  • Collect stars to unlock more songs and beat your personal high score. 

SERVICES

THIS IS WHAT WE DO FOR YOU

Zefwih Consulting

We offer consulting services for projects in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Our expertise ensures that your projects are user-centered, innovative, and effective.

  • User Experience Design: We help you create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces by applying the latest HCI principles and methodologies, ensuring that your product meets the needs of your target audience.

  • Usability Testing: We conduct thorough testing sessions to identify pain points in your design, providing actionable feedback to enhance user satisfaction and overall system performance.

  • Interaction Design Consultation: We advise on the best interaction patterns and technologies, helping you to craft seamless and engaging user experiences across different platforms and devices.

Zefwih Consulting

We offer consulting services for projects in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Our expertise ensures that your projects are user-centered, innovative, and effective.

  • User Experience Design: We help you create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces by applying the latest HCI principles and methodologies, ensuring that your product meets the needs of your target audience.

  • Usability Testing: We conduct thorough testing sessions to identify pain points in your design, providing actionable feedback to enhance user satisfaction and overall system performance.

  • Interaction Design Consultation: We advise on the best interaction patterns and technologies, helping you to craft seamless and engaging user experiences across different platforms and devices.

VR Experiences & Applications

Taking entertainment and infotainment to the next level.

  • Virtual reality (VR) gives users the opportunity to discover new worlds and experience exciting adventures in a custom, scalable, adaptive, creative, and challenging way.
  • We develop mobile and stationary VR games and applications for use in research and leisure.
  • Recent VR applications are WordSearchVR, a 180-degree letter puzzle; HitTheDrumsVR, a rhythm game; and EyeCareVR, a set of preventive eye exercises.

VR Experiences & Applications

Taking entertainment and infotainment to the next level.

  • Virtual reality (VR) gives users the opportunity to discover new worlds and experience exciting adventures in a custom, scalable, adaptive, creative, and challenging way.
  • We develop mobile and stationary VR games and applications for use in research and leisure.
  • Recent VR applications are WordSearchVR, a 180-degree letter puzzle; HitTheDrumsVR, a rhythm game; and EyeCareVR, a set of preventive eye exercises.

AR for Business & Culture

The use of augmented reality (AR) in mobile phones and head-mounted displays is on the rise.

  • Together with leading business companies and cultural institutions, we develop concepts for the use of AR in the near and distant future.
  • This includes a prototype of an AR mobile application for a leading insurance provider, concepts for a digital department store of the future for Germany’s largest department store provider, and a concept for an augmented museum of the future.

AR for Business & Culture

The use of augmented reality (AR) in mobile phones and head-mounted displays is on the rise.

  • Together with leading business companies and cultural institutions, we develop concepts for the use of AR in the near and distant future.
  • This includes a prototype of an AR mobile application for a leading insurance provider, concepts for a digital department store of the future for Germany’s largest department store provider, and a concept for an augmented museum of the future.

Software Concepts

Smart and user-friendly software does not always have to be complex, it just has to be designed correctly from the start.

  • Our software concepts are always based on the user-centered design process. This means: the end user is in focus from the start.
  • Thanks to our startup structure, we can quickly design new concepts, design mockups and build first technical prototypes.
  • Are special requirements such as AI or haptic devices desired? We are always on the latest trend topics and incorporate them into our solutions!

Software Concepts

Smart and user-friendly software does not always have to be complex, it just has to be designed correctly from the start.

  • Our software concepts are always based on the user-centered design process. This means: the end user is in focus from the start.
  • Thanks to our startup structure, we can quickly design new concepts, design mockups and build first technical prototypes.
  • Are special requirements such as AI or haptic devices desired? We are always on the latest trend topics and incorporate them into our solutions!

Zefwih Games

Digital games can be found in all areas of life nowadays.

  • We develop games with the aim of learning, moving, puzzling, but also simply to have fun.
  • 2D or 3D, solo or multiplayer, for adults or for children, challenging or easy as pie – we enjoy any kind of interactive game development!
  • A wide variety of platforms are conceivable: desktop, mobile, VR, AR, tablet, electronic, or would you prefer a board game? We’ve worked with everything.

Zefwih Games

Digital games can be found in all areas of life nowadays.

  • We develop games with the aim of learning, moving, puzzling, but also simply to have fun.
  • 2D or 3D, solo or multiplayer, for adults or for children, challenging or easy as pie – we enjoy any kind of interactive game development!
  • A wide variety of platforms are conceivable: desktop, mobile, VR, AR, tablet, electronic, or would you prefer a board game? We’ve worked with everything.

NEWS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

EVENTS, PRIZES, PRESS REPORTS – EVERYTHING THAT’S CURRENTLY GOING ON

VR Agent Game The Social Engineer published on Steam

Our new serious agent game The Social Engineer in VR is now available on Steam

The game serves as a valuable self-training tool for employees, supports security experts in training courses, and offers individuals an engaging experience through innovative gameplay in high-immersion VR.

Become the next top security agent with The Social Engineer: explore companies, exploit vulnerabilities, deceive employees, and prevent dangerous attacks. Conduct various missions in companies to uncover faulty security mechanisms.

With diverse open game worlds and realistic virtual reality controls, an exciting and immersive stealth experience awaits you, all without weapons and violence.

First place for ÖFFY in the Deutschland 4.0 Challenge 2023

Success for our team at the Deutschland 4.0 Challenge 2023! At the final event in April, we presented our project Öffy and thus successfully completed the challenge.

Our concept ‘Öffy – a 360-degree national public broadcasting platform of the future’ won first place in the use case provided by WDR and WDR Innovation Hub.

Öffy forms a central access point to all content from national public broadcasters, state institutions and media libraries in one app, which is available on all common end devices and consists of six sub-platforms.

It binds young target groups by offering a first easily accessible contact point for videos and information as well as personalized and interactive guidance throughout the day.

VR Rhythm Game Neon Music Drums published on Steam

Our first VR game on Steam is now available! Neon Music Drums is a VR indie music game for cozy drum sessions and exciting workouts in a colorful space environment. 

The game can be played with all current VR headsets that support Steam VR including HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, Meta Quest.

Neon Music Drums is a music rhythm game for virtual reality. Hit the light-up neon drum at the right moment in rhythm to the music. Play with over 50 built-in songs or with your own personal songs. Collect stars to unlock more songs and beat your personal high score. Thanks to different difficulty settings, Neon Music Drums is the perfect VR game for cozy drum sessions as well as for exciting workouts in a colorful space environment!

The Social Engineer nominated for next.Reality.Contest 2022

Our VR agent game The Social Engineer was recognized as a finalist at the next.Reality.Contest 2022. It was nominated in the Young Talent category and showcased in the award show in Hamburg on November 4th, 2022.

It’s an honor for us that our non-violent serious game stands alongside numerous inspiring XR projects  judged by an independent, multidisciplinarjury.

In the virtual reality game The Social Engineer, players take on the role of a social engineering agent in the first-person perspective. In a fictitious simulated company, including security mechanisms and employees, they have to carry out various social engineering attacks and uncover various vulnerabilities as part of a security test.

The XRC Award is among the most renowned awards of the German industry and honors immersive media, novel ideas, sustainable products and creative projects in the field of AR, VR and XR.

First place for ULD CHECK AR in the INNOVATE2030 Challenge

With our project ULD CHECK AR – Optimizing Guidance, Validation and Documentation in Damage Check Processes we took part in the INNOVATE2030 challenge by ekipa.

We won first place in the Digital & Sustainable Solutions for Future Logistics and Transportation of Goods use case by Bosch

ULD CHECK AR provides a mobile device application to optimize guidance, validation, and documentation in damage check processes of Unit Load Devices.

It reduces human made errors, standardizes documentation, saves working time and helps to save resources.

First place for DUPLICITY in the INNOVATE2030 Challenge

With our project DupliCity – Digital Twin for Future Mobility Planning and Operation we took part in the INNOVATE2030 challenge by ekipa.

We won first place in the Innovate Sustainable Mobility use case by Capgemini

Additionally, we presented DupliCity at the Solve For Tomorrow workshop by Samsung and ekipa in July, 2022.

DupliCity provides a simulation-based tool using real-world data to automatically derive relevant performance indicators and action items crucial for the sustainable planning and operation of future mobility.

This leads to lower costs, faster and better recommendations, and most of all, an increased focus on sustainability and quality of life during urban planning processes.

The Social Engineer nominated for Games for Change Award 2022

Our virtual reality serious game The Social Engineer was recognized as a finalist at the Games for Change Awards 2022. It was nominated in the Best Student Game category and showcased in a virtual award show on July 15th, 2022.

We are grateful that our game received so much positive feedback from both the scientific community and the gaming community.

In the non-violent agent game, the player impersonates a penetration tester and conducts security audits in a virtually simulated company. The game contains a detailed game world including different missions

The G4C Awards celebrate the year’s best games and XR experiences for social impact and learning.

Participation at Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche 2022

We at Zefwih had the great honour to be invited to the Founder Talks of the 149th Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche (BBUG), the most important and traditional institution for the development of the next generation of German economic leaders.

Thanks to our victory in the ekipa DE4Punkt0 Challenge, we were able to be part of the highly regarded event for one day. We presented a pitch of inSURE and were able to discuss our concept with the representatives of large German companies and promising start-ups. We are grateful for this experience and appreciate that we were given this opportunity. This excursion was very instructive, broadened our horizons and motivated us on our upcoming projects.

First place for inSURE in the Deutschland 4.0 Challenge 2022

With our AR app inSURE – insuring meand understanding we took part in the Deutschland 4.0 challenge by ekipa.

We were able to convince with our our functional prototype and won the AR meets Insurance use case by Gothaer.

Additionally, thanks to the coherent idea and consistent implementation, our pitch was also convincing in the grand finale and was chosen as one of the three winning teams.

inSURE uses AR to expand analogue insurance documents with additional virtual information, explanations and visual representations to make them more understandable.

The Social Engineer nominated for German Computer Game Award 2021

Our virtual reality agent game The Social Engineer was recognized as a finalist at the German Computer Game Award 2021. It was nominated in the Best Prototype category and showcased in a virtual award show on April 13th, 2021.

As part of the nomination the game could win a promotion that helps to further develop the game.

The Social Engineer sensitizes players about social engineering in a lively and detailed game world covering different non-violent missions. The player impersonates a penetration tester and conducts security audits in a virtually simulated company.

The German Computer Game Award is a prize for the German games industry and celebrates the year’s best games.

ABOUT US

THE VISION & THE TEAM BEHIND ZEFWIH

We are Researchers, Developers, Visionaries.

 

Zefwih – a team of young digital media enthusiasts specialized in creating concepts, applications and toolkits for business, culture and human-computer-interaction research.

As experienced media and computer science developers, our focus lies on creating applications with and for humans. This includes the creation of assets, tools and applications for desktop, mobile and VR platforms.

We always try to take a creative path and think outside the box to achieve a goal. It is our interest that applications are not only functional but also intelligently designed, usable and well thought out.

 

Fabian Fischbach

Founder

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Daniel Hirschle

Founder

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Dr. Mark Colley

Founder

CONTACT US

WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEET YOU

What about you? Do you need help creating new concepts or developing interactive media applications? Do you want to know more about Zefwih?

For any enquiries, please get in touch with us and tell us more about your project.

EMAIL ADDRESS

ADDRESS

Kantstraße 8,
89231 Neu-Ulm,
Germany

CONTACT NUMBER

+49 176 6898 8792
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