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‘Human-Centred VR’ Increases Training Effectiveness

by Tom Allen

At ITEC 2016 Federica Pallavicini – a researcher at the Università di Milano-Bicocca – gave a presentation on the use of virtual reality in the military. Rather than training, though, Pallavicini was concentrating on …

Tags:ITEC 2016| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 23

Ginsbury showcasing new 12.1-inch Ground Vehicle Display at Eurosatory 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Specialist display supplier Ginsbury and IEE Inc, a manufacturer of enhanced displays for military applications, will be exhibiting at the Eurosatory defence and security exhibition in Paris, France on June 13th-17th. In addition to …

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IEE Prepares Low-Latency for Eurosatory

by Tom Allen

Military display maker IEE Inc. will show a new 12.1″ screen for ground vehicles at Eurosatory (13th-17th June) in Paris, with distributor Ginsbury. The Control & Display Unit (CDU) is a 5-point resistive touch …

Night Vision Comes to Mobile

by Tom Allen

Danish company Lumignon was founded in 2009, and introduced the T1 smartphone in 2010. It followed with the T2 (2012) and T2 HD (2014). The firm is keeping up its two-year release cycle with …

ITEC Has Interesting Displays

by Bob Raikes

ITEC is the annual exhibition for the military/defence simulation business in Europe that is equivalent to the US I/ITSEC which we have reported on for several years. This is the first time that we …

Tags:ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Military & Defence| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Thales Partners with Spanish MoD

by Tom Allen

Thales has signed a deal with the Spanish Ministry of Defence to supply its Scorpion helmet-mounted displays to the EF-18 aircraft. The 80 units to be supplied will be installed in 2016 and 2017, …

Tags:Back Panel| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Thales| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Psychology and Immersive Storytelling with VR

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On April 28th, Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo gave a webinar titled “Clinical Virtual Reality and the Psychology of Immersive Storytelling” as part of the SMPTE Professional Development Academy education series. Dr. Rizzo is a …

Tags:Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 17

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

New Developments at I/ITSEC 2015

by Tom Allen

Held at the start of December in Orlando, Florida, I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) 2015 is the world’s largest modelling, simulation and training event. Attendees come from the education, retail, military and …

SA Photonics Shows Three New HMDs

by Chris Chinnock

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 …

BAE Focuses on Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

BAE has announced a partnership with the University of Birmingham with the goal of developing augmented reality systems. The new “augmented reality systems could revolutionize complex emergency response and military battlefield operations, by drastically …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Kopin Chosen for Follow-On Order

by Tom Allen

Kopin has secured a $1.8 million follow-on production order from the US government, for a high-brightness microdisplay. The displays, which will be supplied over a 15-month period, will be used in the F-35 Helmet-Mounted …