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Last year at I/ITSEC, General Dynamic was just starting to develop a VR application to help with fire fighter training, especially in military and commercial applications. This year, they showed the progress they have made. Over the year, the team has been working on adding a number of features and modules to the simulation and … Read more
HMD developer Sensics was at I/ITSEC to show off its high performance HMD but also to facilitate discussions about OSVR – their joint venture with game developer, Razor. OSVR stands for Open Source Virtual Reality and the idea is to create a platform of interfaces that are open source, i.e. non-proprietary or royalty-bearing, that allows … Read more
The training of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, JTACs, is a major initiative in the US military as well as other allied militaries. JTACs coordinate close air support and are vital for making sure bombs are dropped on enemy combatants and not civilians or friendly forces. Therefore, high level training is needed. As noted in the … Read more
Over the last year, Barco has separated its defense, medical, training and simulation business, selling these businesses to Esterline. That means that Barco returns to its roots as a supplier of display solutions, leaving others to the integration task. As a result, Barco and Esterline were at I/ITSEC 2015 with separate booths. There were no … Read more
Oculus was at I/ITSEC to show offs the new GearVR from Samsung (with support from Oculus) and the new Rift headset that will be launched by Oculus in Q1’16. The exact date has not been set, nor the pricing, however. We got a chance to try the new Oculus headset. At CES they called this … Read more
SA Photonics is one of the suppliers of very high quality head mounted displays – with monocular and binocular, see through and occlusive types. They offer some of the best image quality using OLEDs and great optics – but they are expensive. Nevertheless, there remains a dedicated customer base for these products. At I/ITSEC 2015, … Read more
Epson used I/ITSEC 2015 to show offs its line of augmented reality glasses – and their applications for training and simulation. Last June, the company released an industrialized version of its consumer AR glasses called the Moverio Pro BT-2000. It features a similar optical engine as the consumer version (twin 960×540 resolution LCDs projected onto … Read more
Digital Projection was at I/ITSEC to show off its Insight 4K projectors with laser phosphor sources (Digital Projection Wows CEDIA with Insight 4K Projectors) as well as its M-Vision series with LED source. But it also showed a modified version of the Insight 4K Laser in a 4:3 aspect ratio. This offered a resolution of … Read more
Adding night vision goggle (NVG) capability to a projector is a fairly big deal. Typically, this means adding Infrared LEDs to provide the IR light output needed to stimulate the NVGs. But the NVG image typically is delivered to the projector from the image generator (IG) as a separate channel of data. That means the … Read more
New for I/ITSEC 2015 is the Sony VPL-GTZ280 projector – a 4K model with a laser-phosphor source that is purpose-built for the simulation market. It should ship in February 2016. It will be offered in two lumen levels: 2000 and 5000 lumens. The base 2000 lumen model will sell for $43K MSRP with lenses running … Read more
At last year’s I/ITSEC event there were plenty of lamp-based projectors in various booths on the trade show floor. This year, not so many. In fact, the only lamp-based projectors we saw were F32 and F50 models from Barco. Lamp-based projectors still offer good value, noted Barco in our discussions with them, but the real … Read more
The answer is yes and no depending upon which segment of the market you are talking about. The key question that users and suppliers need to ask is, “does color improve the training proficiency?” For military flight simulators, the answer is typically no – they really don’t care about color. That’s because most operations and … Read more
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