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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
One of the best performing projectors in the simulation market is the ProSim projector (also known as the Zoro projector) manufactured by Rockwell Collins. According to officials at I/ITSEC 2015, the company has now sold over 2000 of these projectors. But it is growing a little old and there was no news of an upgrade … Read more
At I/ITSEC 2015, Rockwell Collins announced a new project called the WholeEarth Synthetic Database, which, as you might suspect, is a database of the entire Earth. They are not the first ones to attempt to do this, but they are doing it in a way that has a manageable file size and cost, while offering … Read more
Operation Blended Warrior is a 20-company Live Virtual Constructed exercise on the I/ITSEC trade show floor covering 3 days with a specific scenario.
KDX (KangDe Xin composite material co., Ltd.), the global market leader of high-resolution 3D Technology, announced today that it will launch K3DX – the new glasses-free 3D Technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week. High resolution K3DX 3D Technology lets everyone enjoy 3D content anywhere/anytime, without the need of uncomfortable 3D glasses. K3DX … Read more
Scalable Display has a new concept called a Huddlewall that uses a novel technology from Anoto to facilitate interactive whiteboard collaboration.
3D version – One of the more impressive demos at I/TSEC 2015 was a light field display from Third Dimension Technologies. This is a glasses-free 3D display that has a very big eyebox (12 inches) and very nice stereo effect. (see 2D version – Third Dimension Technologies Shows Improved Light Field Display at IITSEC 2015)
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