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Operation Flashpoint creator Bohemia Interactive (BI) has announced its new 'serious game' engine Virtual Battlespace 2 (VBS2), which is intended for military use such as training small teams in urban encounter tactics, and is also intended for non-military usage such as incident response or terrain visualization. The firm is showing VBS2 at a simulation convention, I/ITSEC, in Orlando, Florida from November 28 to December 1.
Ed.-gamesindustry.biz also writes about Bohemia Interactive's VBS in detail here.
TORONTO, Nov. 8 - Atlantis Systems Corp. ("Atlantis") (TSX: AIQ), a training integrator specializing in military and commercial aviation markets worldwide, today announced that it will be demonstrating its Helicopter Vocational Trainer (HVT) at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (www.iitsec.org), the largest conference of its kind, in Orlando, Florida on November 28 - December 1, 2005 in Booth 2123. This marks the first public appearance of this state-of-the-art full-motion simulator by Atlantis.
In addition to the rapid culling of static objects, Visor now also supports culling of dynamic objects using runtime visibility oracles. Check out the new demonstration video.
Ed.-The Visor SDK is a visibility culling tool targeted for video games and simulation. It enables the PVS method to be used with large scale, high complexity 3D models.
CyberEdge, known for their market studies covering vissim, re-launches their website.
The AI company Kynogon, with a growing list of customers in the military simulation market, is now listed in our solutions directory under the "CGFS, SAF, AI" category.
Second round prelease versions of the 1.6.0 version of OpenRM are available here.
OpenRM Scene Graph is a developers toolkit that implements a scene graph API, and which uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering. OpenRM is intended to be used to construct high performance, portable graphics and scientific visualization applications on Unix/Linux/Windows platforms. It supports parallelism at several levels in the application, from use on distributed memory parallel platforms to single-CPU systems.
June 2005: The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has chosen the BEST Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulators, produced by UK company Micro Nav, to meet their future air traffic control simulation and training requirements. BEST (Beginning to End for Simulation and Training) will be used for a wide range of training from ab initio to conversion, refresher and competency checks. The simulators will be installed during the summer and will enter service in September 2005.
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VTC announces new HLA training:
SIGN UP NOW for the August 16th-18th, 2005 class
Virtual Technology Corporation (VTC) is proud to invite you to learn the High Level Architecture (HLA) from a team with unmatched HLA experience. Since 1996, our team has been supporting the M&S community with HLA expertise including the design, development, user support, and training of the HLA Runtime Infrastructure (RTI). So this is your opportunity to learn from the team that developed an RTI, builds HLA products that use the RTI, and is providing HLA federation engineering expertise to many of the largest DoD simulation programs.
IMAGE 2005 to host the following interesting papers and more :
Military Uses of an Open Source Game Engine - Naval Postgraduate School
Terabyte Texture Management - FlightSafety
Implementing IG-based Distortion Correction and Edge Blending for Wide Field of View Visual Simulations - Carmel Applied Technologies
NEW YORK, NY, April 11, 2005 -- L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Link Simulation and Training (Link) division has been awarded a $12 million competitive contract and a $10 million program option to build two F/A-18C/D Aircrew Flight Trainers (AFTs) to meet the U.S. Marine Corps' Hornet aircrew combat training requirements. The F/A-18C/D AFTs are scheduled for delivery in December 2006.
NEW YORK, NY, April 11, 2005 -- L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Link Simulation and Training (Link) division has been awarded a $12 million competitive contract and a $10 million program option to build two F/A-18C/D Aircrew Flight Trainers (AFTs) to meet the U.S. Marine Corps' Hornet aircrew combat training requirements. The F/A-18C/D AFTs are scheduled for delivery in December 2006.
"The Modeling, Simulation and Training techCAMP, put on by techPATH, an initiative of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, taught educators from Lake, Orange and Seminole counties about the educational and career opportunities of the rapidly growing high-tech industry."
reports OrlandoSentinel here
Magdeburg / Tokyo 15 th March 2005
KAC has signed a reseller contract with Princess Interactive. This gives Princess Interactive the opportunity to address more efficiently the Japanese Market. KAC belongs to Kanematsu Aerospace Corporation in Tokyo and has a long tradition as supplier of high tech hardware and software technologies solutions.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, March 7, 2005—Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (E&S®) (NASDAQ: ESCC)-Hawaii's Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center (MKAEC) has selected E&S Digital Theater to produce the "signature" show for their new planetarium that will feature Digistar® 3 Laser.
All MÄK products support the IEEE 1516 version of the HLA standard. These releases reflect MÄK’s commitment to 1516. Of course, all MÄK products continue to support DIS and the 1.3 version of HLA as well.
The TESI 2005 Conference (www.tesi2005.com) is the foremost technical conference serving the training education and simulation community in its entirety, addressing both international and European specific issues.
Now all modsim.org members can now attend this unique event at a highly discounted rate. Simply contact Paul Rushworth for full details on how to take advantage of this great offer:
Tel: +44 (0) 1322 611 398
Email: paul.rushworth@nexusmedia.com
The TESI Conference has been carefully designed to examine multi-disciplinary study and advancement in the design, evaluation and application of training, modelling, simulation and education systems and services throughout every market sector.
Featuring over 100 papers, submitted from more than 15 countries the TESI 2005 conference and exhibition is one event you can’t afford to miss.
Covering topics as diverse as:
E-Learning
Entertainment
Game-Based Learning
Human-Machine Interaction
Industry Briefing
Intelligent Environments
Medical
Modeling & Simulation
Performance Excellence
Standards
Virtual Humans
Whatever your field of expertise TESI 2005 will provide for all of your training, education and simulation requirements.
Read the online programme at www.tesi2005.com to discover how to make direct contact with conference authors, other delegates and leading industry executives and book your place at the one event blazing the trail for future training, education and simulation requirements.
We look forward to greeting you in Maastricht!
The TESI 2005 team
Mandrakesoft announced the release of the first Linux system capable of real-time computing on Itanium® 2 based parallel computing platforms (Symmetric Multiprocessing and cluster computing)
Okino Computer Graphics Receives Autodesk Inventor 10 "Certification" for its PolyTrans & NuGraf 3D Data Conversion, Re-Purposing & Rendering Pipeline.
Okino Computer Graphics Receives the Honor of the "Front Line” Industry Award for its 'Next Generation' PolyTrans v4.
TerraSim, Inc. will both exhibit and present a workshop focusing on 3D visualization through SOCET SET® at the GXP User Conference, held in San Diego, CA, February 7 - February 10, 2005. This conference brings together users of BAE Systems' Geospatial eXploitation Products.
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Delivering realistic graphical information to the retina has been a challenge for information display technology. Elumens Corp. of Durham, N.C., hopes that its immersive hemispherical digital projection system addresses this challenge and offers a display solution for a variety of fields, from corporate design and military simulation to education and entertainment.
(ORLANDO, FL) – Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that its integrated product team (IPT) for the Army’s One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) Objective System program recently received the National Training Systems Association (NTSA) 2004 Modeling & Simulation Award in the Cross-Function category. The award ceremony took place at the 2004 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), held in Orlando. SAIC is the architecture and integration contractor for the program. In addition, the company serves as the development contractor for the system’s after action review interface, its models and its environmental runtime component.
Official Press Release
There was a SISO CIGI study group meeting held at I/ITSEC 2004 (http://www.iitsec.org/). The proceedings have been posted on the SISO CIGI reflector (http://www.sisostds.org/).
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