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We have managed to find more details on Microsoft's serious flight simulation product ESP on an MSDN blog.
Quote: By that, I mean ESP is a separately versioned, side-by-side application. With an SDK that targets that separately versioned, side-by-side application.
And issues like:
1) Branding ( being brand neutral ),
2) EULA ( licensed for commercial purposes that are expressly forbidden in the FSX consumer EULA ), and
3) IP ( commercial reship rights for all content )
taken care of for the commercial customer to take the platform, add their solution, and ship it in volume.
Microsoft has announced a new platform for visual simulation. The press release mentions exclusively flight training among others. The product is probably a derivative of the MS's Flight Simulator X.
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced plans for a new visual-simulation platform, Microsoft ESP, available in January 2008. Microsoft ESP enables the innovative use of visual simulation for immersive learning and decision-making, supports PC-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software, and enables simulations to be built faster and more cost-effectively. Simulations built on the Microsoft ESP platform will help government, commercial and academic organizations apply immersive games-based technology and interactive learning experiences to improve work-force readiness and increase operational excellence.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has opened its first F-15E Mission Training Center (MTC) for the U.S. Air Force's 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The center will provide aircrews with high-fidelity, simulator-based training without the material and personnel costs associated with training on operational aircraft.
"The F-15E MTC provides a huge leap in technology and capability for our Air Force customer," said Tony Jones, vice president, Training Systems and Services, a division of IDS Support Systems. "Because of the added capabilities provided by the visual systems and other advanced features of the MTC, F-15E aircrews now will be able to experience more realistic scenarios to match today's demanding missions."
 We are pleased to announce the release of Equalizer 0.4, a framework for the development and deployment of scalable OpenGL applications. Equalizer 0.4 makes the programming of parallel OpenGL applications easier than before. Most notably, the new Programming Guide gathers all the information to write scalable Equalizer applications. Order your hardcopy today through lulu.com!
Many additions to the programming interface facilitate the conversion of existing, single-threaded OpenGL applications to parallel Equalizer-based programs. The support for volume rendering opens the power of scalable rendering to new markets, for example in medical imaging and Oil and Gas exploration. Furthermore, porting of existing rendering codes has been simplified substantially by the optional, per-node frame synchronization.
The full release notes for version 0.4 are available at
www.equalizergraphics.com/documents/RelNotes/RelNotes_0.4.0.html.
Commercial support, custom software development and porting services are available from Eyescale Software GmbH. Please contact info@eyescale.ch for further information.
 seriousgamessource.com published an interesting article discussing the serious games movement.
In this impassioned opinion piece, PIXELearning CEO Kevin Corti discusses the nature of the 'serious games' movement, suggesting that the fragmented nature of the sector, which includes games for education, business, health, and military uses, is adversely affecting business.
"I’ve been motivated to pen this article by a long-standing observation born from being involved with numerous initiatives, groups and associations over the last five years, from attending numerous Serious Games and related events (many of which I have spoken at) and from amassing a very large collection of reference material, articles and publications about Serious Games.
 Kongsberg has successfully delivered the Operator Training Simulator (OTS) to Petroleum Development Oman's (PDO) Kauther Gas Plant project.
The Site Acceptance Test (SAT) was performed on site at the Kauther Gas Plant. The SAT as well as instructor training on the ASSETT simulation tool was completed within a fifteen day schedule. The test was completed with representatives of PETROFAC and PDO signing the SAT certificate.
 ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has shipped a new CH-47D Chinook helicopter maintenance trainer to the U.S. Army National Guard that will provide a hands-on tool for soldiers, technicians and other flight personnel.
The trainer, modified from a retired U.S. Army CH-47D, will be ready for use by the end of October at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (EAATS) at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
Berne. The RUAG technology group will be manufacturing the tactics simulators for the French Army's new infantry vehicle. A contract has just been signed with the French procurement agency Délégation générale de l'armement (DGA).
RUAG Electronics, a subsidiary of the Swiss technology group, will be executing the contract with GAVAP, its French partner company for this business sector based in the town of Albi. The contract covers the development and manufacture of simulators and instructor/operator stations.
 
Five years ago, the U.S. Army launched America's Army, a free first-person-shooter (FPS) computer game based on the Army itself. It received solid reviews, and has been through multiple permutations, including retail versions for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. A new Xbox 360 America's Army game, True Soldiers, ships later this fall.
The Army is now bringing its video game series out of the PC and console and to virtual reality with the Virtual Army Experience. America's Army: VAE is a traveling exhibit presented by the U.S. Army that lets people get a dose of VR combat through the America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) video game. At Digital Life, I got a chance to try the Virtual Army Experience for myself.
MaxSim® 4.0 provides technology and functionality for improved training Orlando, Florida (September 17, 2007) - Adacel, an industry leader in software integration,simulation development and speech recognition technology, announced today that the Company has released the next generation of the world’s leading Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower Simulation System (TSS), MaxSim® 4.0.This release also celebrates the 191st order for its MaxSim® Tower Simulation System – more systems than all other tower simulation providers combined worldwide.
 A computer simulation command post NATO exercise "Cooperative Marlin 2007" got underway in Sevastopol, Crimea. The exercise drew together participants from the navies of 15 countries: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates.
Presagis is proud to announce that it has been named to Military Training Technology magazine’s Top 100 in the “Up-and-Coming” category. The MT2 Top 100 is a listing of premier companies that have made a significant impact in the military training industry in 2007 in the areas of training, modeling, gaming, information retention and simulation. Presagis was chosen out of more than 600 candidates to make the cut in this year’s annual listing.
As an emerging VizSim company, Presagis has shown innovation through its extensive portfolio of flexible and adaptable simulation technologies. As the only VizSim company to offer a fully integrated COTS vision, Presagis boasts a solid portfolio of cutting edge technologies for the training and simulation industry, with a strategic focus on product innovation and customer support.
Vortex robotic and sensor simulations reduce DRDC development time and expense September 10, 2007 – Montreal, Canada - CMLabs Simulations Inc., the leading supplier of real-time physics-based simulation software and services was selected by Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC) – Suffield to contribute robotic and sensor simulations to aid in design work for robotic vehicles.
CMLabs first developed a MATLAB/Simulink interface for simulated robots within Vortex, CMLabs’ COTS software for modeling vehicles, machines and robots for realtime interactive simulations.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed a program of simulations, demonstrations and tests designed to provide the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program with low programmatic and technical risk.
Northrop Grumman's BAMS Head Start Program successfully completed four system-level integration and development initiatives, which included: integrated mission system testing; full system simulation as hosted on a prototype mission control system and aircraft simulator; airframe modifications and testing; and initiating air vehicle long lead procurements and capital investments.
Frasca International, Inc, has been awarded a contract to supply nine Flight Training Devices (FTDs) to the US Army for use in training the Iraqi Air Force. The devices will be used for training pilots for both helicopter and fixed wing aircraft and will include three Cessna 172 TruFlite FTDs, two Bell 206 helicopter FTDs, two Cessna Caravan FTDs and two Huey Helicopter FTDs. "TruFlite" denotes Frasca's line of reconfigurable FTDs which can be converted between aircraft types allowing greater flexibility in training.
London 21 August 2007 - LINE Communications, a leading provider of learning and communications solutions, and Caspian Learning a pioneer of 3D learning based games applications, today announce a partnership to produce and distribute the industry's first SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) conformant 3D serious games for learning management systems in the corporate training, government and military sectors.
 DTI Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET - Wednesday 17th October 2007
Serious Games has become a high profile term, however what constitutes a serious game, what different genres exist, what is their value to organisations, trainers and learners' Isn't it about time we took a practical, pragmatic and research based view on the usefulness of this technology to the learning landscape.
This seminar will set the scene, give clear academic rigour to the area, including pedagogical relevance, and with delegate input and practical case studies show examples and identify opportunities.
gDEBugger is an OpenGL Debugger and Profiler. It provides the application behavior information a developer needs to find bugs and to optimize application performance. gDEBugger Linux brings all of gDEBugger’s Debugging and Profiling abilities to the OpenGL Linux developer’s world. About gDEBugger: gDEBugger, our flagship product, is an OpenGL Debugger and Profiler. It traces application activity on top of the OpenGL API to provide the application behavior information you need to find bugs and to optimize application performance.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has received an $18 million U.S. Navy contract to design, develop and produce the Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) ground-based training system for Training Wing 6 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.
"Future readiness begins with training, and the U.S. Navy's UMFO program is the foundation for the naval flight officers of tomorrow," said Tony Jones, vice president, Boeing Training Systems and Services. "We recognize the importance of providing a state-of-the-art training capability for new weapon systems and look forward to the opportunity to provide that capability to the U.S. Navy."
Bethesda, MD, August 17, 2007 -- Lockheed Martin Corporation [NYSE: LMT] announced it has acquired 3Dsolve, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 3Dsolve is a privately held company that creates simulation-based learning solutions for government, military and corporate applications. The company’s innovative software tools assist clients with collaborative training utilizing interactive 3D graphics (aka, “serious games”). 3Dsolve’s core competencies include multi-media, software engineering, digital artwork, instructional design and project management for use in state-of-the-art simulation learning solutions.
As was announced at the SIGGRAPH '07 OSG BOF, Blue Newt Software and Skew Matrix Software have partnered to provide OpenSceneGraph (OSG) support services, which includes support on a new branch of OSG v1.2 as well as the current OSG development head. The v1.2 branch will be licensed under the OSGPL and available for free download.
"Many clients have applications that use OSG v1.2. They can't port to OSG v2.x at this time, so they still need bug fixes and minor feature additions on v1.2," said Paul Martz, Skew Matrix Software president. "Bob Kuehne and I will support these customers on v1.2, and help them move to v2.x as their schedule allows."
ST. LOUIS, July 27, 2007 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has developed and delivered 23 Apache Longbow Crew Trainers -- deployable, full-mission, high-fidelity flight simulators -- to the U.S. Army and Dutch Air Force and is under contract for an additional five trainers for both U.S. and international customers.
WashingtonTimes reports an interesting case from China.
Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 42, a former Beijing resident, pleaded guilty Aug. 1 in California to illegally providing China's military with embargoed software used in air force and navy training.
Prosecutors said Meng violated arms export control laws by selling China's military what is called "viXsen" source code, a Quantum3D product controlled for export as a defense article. The software is used in "visual simulation software program used for training military fighter pilots."
Meng also illegally installed a copy of Quantum3D's "Mantis" simulation software on a Chinese navy site and altered the code to make it appear as though it belonged to a competitor. The software was part of a sales demonstration project for the Chinese produced by Meng.
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Conference themes for ITEC 2008 have been announced by the Conference Committee Chairman. This will be the 19th annual ITEC; it will be held 10-12 June 2008 at the Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm.
The ITEC 2008 Conference Committee Chairman Paul Newman, Head Modelling & Simulation Coordination Office, NATO Research Technology Agency, France announced the themes following the first meeting of the ITEC Committee held this month [July 2007] at the offices of CAE UK.
Paul said “An emphasis will be cast on challenges coming from NATO and its partner nation initiatives for transformation and country-specific training initiatives.
Taking advantage of having ITEC 2008 in Scandinavia, we would wish to bind in themes, similar to 2007, specific for these nations, as well as bringing in a number of new themes i.e.
Come see Okino at Siggraph 2007, Booth # 737, August 7th to 9th San Diego, California
Please join us for the SIGGRAPH 2007 SIGGRAPH 2007 OpenSceneGraph BOF session at noon Wed August 8 in the San Diego Convention Center. If you wish to give a brief presentation at the BOF, there are a few slots remaining, contact mew-AT-mew-DOT-cx
LINE Releases Cultural Awareness Training For Military Service Personnel In Iraq And Afghanistan
LONDON, 22nd June 2007: LINE Communications, the leading provider of learning and communications solutions, announced today the release of Cultural Awareness training for all military service personnel undertaking tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Because culture is a subjective issue, DETS(A), the Directorate of Educational and Training Services (Army), tasked LINE to raise awareness and facilitate a behavioural shift rather than to simply teach individual elements of culture in Iraq and Afghanistan. LINE worked with DETS(A) to identify authentic scenarios which the troops could face, possible cultural factors that could influence them and ways in which service personnel might react. Moreover, the courses had to be adaptable to existing military training. The e-learning resource is available as a pre-deployment desktop resource for classroom-based training. Alternatively, it can also be used by commanders with their troops in any environment once deployment has taken place.
IMAGE 2007 Conference & Exhibition 10-12 July 2007
"30th ANNIVERSARY"
1977 - 2007 "The Premier Technical Conference in Visual Simulation since 1977"
Chaparral Suites Resort Scottsdale, Arizona Res: 480-949-1414 / 800-648-4020 Be sure to mention IMAGE to get the conference rates.
SPONSORED BY: The IMAGE Society HOSTED BY:CAE, FlightSafety, Barco Simulation, Rockwell Collins, Quantum3D, Sony Electronics
 North American Flash developer SBK Interactive, a division of digital studio Sarbakan focused on the development of advergames, has announced the release of Streetwise Version 2.0, a free online driving game developed with the help of the Chrysler Group in order to educate teenagers about the risks associated with driving.
The third-person driving game was developed using SBK’s Virtools technology, and is available as part of the Chrysler Group’s larger Road Ready Teens program designed to educated new and soon to be drivers. The game is now available from the program's official website.
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