Tesi, NordicNinja, and Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank are among Varjo's new investors contributing to its $54 million round of Series C funding.
The Royal Australian Air Force recently completed a complex virtual training exercise conducted over a two week period between 29 June - 10 July. Exercise Virtual Pitch Black 20 allowed the RAAF to overcome Covid-19 related training restrictions,in particular, the conduction of large force multi-national training exercises.
With the world now some months into the pandemic, MS&T’s Editor Andy Fawkes reports on developments in remote training and working during and beyond Covid-19.
“Remote Working”, “Working from Home”, “Teleworking”, once minority ways of working have in the space of weeks become commonplace and with some employees unlikely to return to offices anytime soon. In 2019 a UK ONS study reported that just over 5% of the total workforce worked mainly from home, and in June 2020 this had risen to 49%. Similar trends have taken place across the world because of Covid-19 and words such as “Zoom” have entered day to day language. Live events and exhibitions have moved wholesale online. The pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the workplace and remote work has become a new reality, making connectivity, speed, reliability, cybersecurity, and undisrupted access essential elements of organizations. Further, a whole generation of children, future recruits, and employees, are experiencing remote education and schooling over an extended period.
British technology company Improbable’s Defence business has secured a contract with the British Army to supply its synthetic environment platform as a pathfinder technology demonstrator project for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme.
Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter AS has successfully achieved EASA Level D re-qualification for their H145 Full Flight Simulator in Stavanger, Norway.
Osso VR, a Virtual Reality (VR) surgical training platform, has launched a VR training module for MicroPort Orthopedics' SuperPATH Hip Technique and Evolution Medial-Pivot Knee System.
Two games created for use in military or government training programs have been awarded for their excellence in the 2020 International Serious Play Awards Program.