AI and AUGMENTED REALITY for EMERGENCY MESSAGING and RESPONSE!
What Is Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality overlays 3D computer-generated imagery directly onto the real world — no headset, no goggles, no barrier between the user and their environment. Unlike virtual reality, which severs the user from reality entirely, AR enhances it. Point a phone at a product label, a pizza box, or a retail shelf and the world comes alive with information, instruction, and life-saving preparedness content — right where people already are.
How It Works
No headset. No special hardware. Just your smartphone and any participating product.
Find a participating product
Look for the ARCNetUSA scan marker on any Business Hero product — pizza boxes, cereal boxes, home improvement packaging, and more.
Open the ARCNetUSA app
Launch ARCNetUSA on your smartphone. No special hardware needed — any modern iOS or Android device works.
Point and scan
Aim your camera at the marker. The AR experience launches instantly — 3D overlays, interactive scenarios, and life-saving preparedness content.
Learn and earn
Complete training scenarios, earn rewards from Business Heroes, and level up your preparedness score.
HOVER A STEP TO SCANThe Difference
Traditional Training vs. ARCNetUSA Product Culture
ARCNetUSA · Augmented Reality Preparedness Platform
AR for Children & Education
The most resilient communities are built one child at a time. ARCNetUSA brings preparedness to life for kids through immersive, age-appropriate AR experiences — wildfire evacuations, first aid scenarios, and family emergency plans that unfold right in their living room. When preparedness is taught through play, it stops being a lesson and starts being second nature. That's the kind of readiness that lasts a lifetime.
Multiple Modalities
Children engage with AR images, hear sounds, interact and speak aloud, and experience emotional imagery.
Cross-Curricular
AR technology can be applied for cross-curricular activities, connecting preparedness to everyday learning.
Memory & Recall
Learning through different modalities creates unique pathways in the brain, greatly affecting the recall of information.
Behavior Management
Augmented reality can also help with behavior management while improving a child's attention span.
The Coloring Book Feature
A child picks up a crayon and colors a character on the page — choosing every shade, every detail, making it entirely their own. Then the ARCNetUSA app does something extraordinary: it scans their artwork through any smartphone or tablet camera and transforms it into a living, breathing, fully animated 3-D character that moves, speaks, and teaches. Their creation. Their companion. Their first step toward becoming a prepared, confident first responder.
Filling the Communication Gap
Traditional emergency messaging asks people to pay attention. ARCNetUSA makes it impossible not to. By delivering preparedness through augmented reality — the most immersive, attention-commanding medium available — ARCNetUSA transforms passive awareness into genuine readiness. Citizens don't just receive information; they experience it, internalize it, and act on it. When the next disaster strikes, the gap between a victim and a survivor is a plan. ARCNetUSA makes sure no one faces that moment without one.