MetaVR at I/ITSEC 2004

MetaVR exhibited its products and technology at the annual I/ITSEC trade show in Booth #1030. The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference and Trade Show was held December 6-9, 2004, at Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL, USA.

Illustration of MetaVR's 40' x 40' booth, #1030 at I/ITSEC 2004. Click on the image above to download an animated display of the booth.

Among the 3D terrain databases that MetaVR demonstrated in its real-time 3D visualization product, Virtual Reality Scene Generator™ (VRSG™) were the new Ft. Lewis terrain database with the Leschi Town MOUT site, a preview of the Metadesic-formatted North America 3D terrain (which will be available in February 2005), plus a new Baghdad, Iraq database that featured a simulated convoy scenario.

As shown below and described in MetaVR's newsletter, the 3D Ft. Lewis MOUT site Stryker training database uses .3 meter imagery and micro-terrain. The custom-built 3D feature content of the Leschi Town West MOUT site (which is the Army’s largest urban combat training center) was part of an $800,000 PEO STRI purchase for the delivery of Stryker vehicle simulators and an urban warfare training terrain database.

Demonstrating the capabilities of MetaVR's new Metadesic format was a preview of our new North America 3D terrain, which spans coast-to-coast with several high-resolution (.3, 1, and 5 meter) insets on base natural imagery of 15 meters. Shown below, representing a high-speed fixed wing simulation, was the North American terrain configured for use as a 3-channel synchronized visual system:

Among the other datbases that MetaVR demonstrated were its US Military Future Combat System (FCS) training facility terrain database, and Ft. Campbell Cassidy and Ft. Benning McKenna virtual MOUT sites.

MetaVR also announced its new Metadesic™ terrain compiler, based on its recently developed geocentric virtual terrain architecture, and significant additions to the MetaVR 3D entity model library including several new models that use the company’s photo-specific 3D model convention with sub-centimeter resolution imagery models.

The databases that MetaVR demonstrated contained new cultural feature assets from MetaVR’s 3D model libraries, such as photo-realistic models of structures at the Leschi Town MOUT site, a set of 22 HMMWV and 12 Stryker models, and new photo-specific T-80 UM1, ZIL-131H, and Hunter UAV models.

A subset of the product brochures that were available in the MetaVR booth are also available on our downloads page.

MetaVR manufactures software and turnkey PC-based systems for high-speed 3D visualization and rapid creation of networked virtual worlds on PCs for the simulation, training, and location-based entertainment markets.

MetaVR systems are used for applications such as urban operations training (MOUT), unmanned aerial vehicles for the US Army TUAV, and prototyping the Future Combat System.