MetaVR Technology Featured on Fidelity Technologies Website

MetaVR's visualization technology was featured in two videos on the Fidelity Technologies website and on YouTube.

In the Fidelity Technologies simulation and training overview video of June - July 2011, at 2:44, an image appears in the montage featuring two screen captures from MetaVR VRSG: an aerial view of on A-10 entity in flight over MetaVR's Baghdad 3D terrain, and an inset image of VRSG's simulated laser designator view featuring a scene on the terrain at the ground level:

Image montage in Fidelity Technologies' simulation and training overview video of June - July 2011, © Fidelity Technologies, which includes a MetaVR image.

The MetaVR image circled in the video montage shown above was used several times in 2007, both in various media articles and in ads we placed in several simulation publications:

MetaVR's ad from 2007 featuring a VRSG screen capture of an A-10 entity in flight over the company's virtual Baghdad terrain.

In this same video, at 2:04, a photo appears that was published in fall 2005 in the AFRL-HEA "Fight's On" newsletter, Volume 5 Issue 3.

Image in Fidelity Technologies' simulation and training overview video of June - July 2011, © Fidelity Technologies, of MetaVR's visuals in use in an A-10 FMT at AFRL Mesa.

The caption of the full photo in the AFRL newsletter reads, “Lt Col ‘Cachi’ Motz, 103rd FS, Willow Grove ARS, PA checks the Ft. Irwin Military Reservation ‘god’s eye’ view while conducting JCAS attacks in AFRL Mesa’s DMO trial connecting the JTAC TRS Dome to a virtual A-10”.

The visuals in the A-10 FMT in the photo are generated by MetaVR VRSG, which has been used in US Air Force A-10 FMTs since 2001.

This same photo also appears in the company overview video that was shown on the home page of the Fidelity Technologies website and on YouTube, in the montage that appears at 3:17.

Image montage from the video on Fidelity Technologies' home page of June - July 2011, © Fidelity Technologies, which includes an image of MetaVR's visuals in use in an A-10 FMT at AFRL Mesa.

In the same video, in the same montage shown above at 3:17, a photo appears that was originally shown in the Wright Patterson newsletter of May 11, 2010.

Image montage from the company overview video of June - July 2011 on Fidelity Technologies' home page and on YouTube, © Fidelity Technologies, which includes an image of MetaVR's visuals in use in the JTAC training system at Grayling Air Gunnery Range.

The photograph was taken at the Grayling Air Gunnery Range, which had recently bought VRSG to use in its JTAC simulation training dome. We use the image on our website too, to accompany information about Grayling's use of VRSG.

Original image from Grayling Air Gunnery Range, which clearly shows MetaVR's visual system in use in the JTAC training system.

Although it is mostly cropped out in Fidelity's montage, shown above on the lower left side of the complete photograph, one can clearly see the MetaVR VRSG Dashboard interface in use in the training system.

On a page on Fidelity's website that describes simulation and training effects, a set of old VRSG screenshots of the 2002 version of MetaVR's NTC database was shown to the right of the list of environmental conditions and effects:

Set of images from a page on Fidelity Technologies' website, © Fidelity Technologies, showing VRSG screenshots from MetaVR's 2002 version of its NTC database.

These images show cultural features (of low buildings surrounding a distinctive water tower) on the Bicycle Lake area the 2002 version of MetaVR's NTC database:

A 2002 MetaVR VRSG screenshot of the same area of the company's 2002 NTC database.

Although Fidelity Technologies portrayed MetaVR visuals on their website and specifically claimed that they were "By Fidelity Tech", the images called out here on this web page are in fact generated by MetaVR 3D real time visuals. Fidelity Technologies does not use MetaVR visuals in its simulators.

The copyrighted image of an A-10 entity in flight over virtual Baghdad with an inset, shown at the top of this page, featuring MetaVR visuals in Fidelity Technologies' simulation video of June - July 2011 on its website and on YouTube was used without crediting MetaVR and without our permission. In particular, use of copyrighted MetaVR VRSG-generated images without MetaVR's permission (and with intent to show it as an image taken from Fidelity's own simulator) is an apparent copyright infringement.

Fidelity Technologies has since removed from its website all images and videos depicting MetaVR technology.