VR has become a mainstay for many training programs, but a handful of companies are already imagining what the next chapter of VR will entail: from emotional tracking to understanding the physical world at a molecular level.
The XR Association has worked closely with Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester’s staff to draft H.R. 9674: Immersive Technology for the American Workforce Act of 2022, which was introduced to the House of Representatives in December.
The new simulator or Weapons System Trainer Reconfigurable C-130J flight simulator is the first of its kind for the US Air National Guard on the west coast, and will showcase a myriad of capabilities that will separate it from other simulators across the United States.
Gregory Kane has joined Engineering & Computer Simulations as its Chief Operating Officer. Kane will enhance relationships with the company’s customers and partners; he will also lead the technical and creative services teams.
Supernal has entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to advance autonomy, digital operations and cloud integration technologies for the aviation industry by running Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) on the Microsoft cloud platform.
Vrgineers, in cooperation with the company IMRNext, have developed a new wireless XTAL headset. The release of this high-fidelity standalone virtual reality headset was released at the CES 2023 show, in Las Vegas from 5-8 January 2023.
Terasynth won the award for Most Innovative at the IronDev showcase at the 2022 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
Loft Dynamics AG (formerly VRM Switzerland), is entering a partnership with Air Greenland to bring its virtual reality training simulator to Greenland.
At the recent I/ITSEC conference in Orlando, a rather unusual project at the NATO booth dealt with Modelling & Simulation to support ‘resilience building’ and the creation of refugee flow management.