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Recent News
- Discussion from MetaVR's W. Garth Smith appears in the July 2010 issue of Military Training Technology. In the article, "15 Year QuickLook", Smith and others in the industry give their perspective on developments in training and simulation over the past 15 years.
- MetaVR is featured in the video footage of the June 4, 2010 ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new F-16 Mission Training Center, located at the Air National Guard base at the Burlington International Airport. As shown in the video of the ceremony recorded by Channel 17 of Burlington, VT, Richard M. Rybacki of MetaVR received an award for engineering excellence for the simulation technology used at the training center.
- MetaVR is featured in the April 2010 issue of Military Training Technology, in the article, "Terrain Database Requirements Become More Demanding". The article explores increasing demand for highly detailed terrain databases to match current image generation technology used in visual simulations. Page 9 contains quotes from MetaVR's co-founder W. Garth Smith about MetaVR's workflow for geospecific 3D terrain content, which includes its terrain generation tools and third-party 3D modeling tools such as 3D Studio Max. MetaVR's Afghanistan 3D terrain is cited as an example of the company's direction in producing highly-detailed game-like content.
- MetaVR is included in the March 2010 issue of Special Operations Technology, in the article, "Training Readiness Enablers" which surveys new technologies that enable special operations forces to increase training readiness for diverse missions. On page 9, in the discussion about the newer technology solutions available to provide higher-fidelity training for joint terminal air controllers (JTACs), the new JTAC MiniDome system, a collaborative effort of MetaVR, Immersive Display Solutions, and Scalable Display Technologies is cited as a solution where prospective JTACs can train in a networked environment with A-10s, F-16s, UAVs, and other JTAC simulators all using MetaVR correlated 3-D terrain.
- MetaVR is featured in two articles in the December 2009 issue of Training
and Simulation Journal. In "I/ITSEC Spolight: War fighter showcase", MetaVR is mentioned, with an image taken from its Afghanistan virtual terrain, as demonstrating VRSG and the company's Afghanistan terrain in its booth. The article "A question of correlation" describes how correlating visuals across A-10 FMT and JTAC networked simulators is achieved at Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Both programs use MetaVR's databases and image generator (VRSG). This technical briefing draws on the paper L3 Link and MetaVR presented at the IMAGE 2009 Conference.
- News about continued use of MetaVR visuals in JTAC simulation training, in the MUSE/ASFERS simulation program, and in AAI Corp.'s TADSS UAS training suite is reported in the December 2009 issue of Military Technology.
- MetaVR VRSG's role in translating data into representations that simulate UAS payload captures in the Multiple Unified Simulations Environment (MUSE) program is described on pages 25 and 26 of the article, "Long Range Eyes: A Battle Command Training Capability" in the Fall 2009 issue of the U.S. Army's Modeling & Simulation Newsletter.
- MetaVR is featured in Military Training and Technology's annual selection of Top 100 Simulation and Training Companies. In the magazine's September/October 2009 issue, MetaVR's award for "Innovation" marks its seventh year on the list. At I/ITSEC 2009, MetaVR was presented its award ribbon in person at its booth.
- An announcement about MetaVR as lead sponsor of the Close Air Support Conference and Exhibition held in London in October 2009 is on page 45 of the September 2009 issue of Military Simulation and Training. Also in this issue, a profile of MetaVR is included in the publication's annual Simulation and Training Companies directory on page 79.
- News about the fidelity study being conducted in the JTAC TRS domes at the AFRL/Mesa research site appeared in the AFRL 711HPW/RHA Newsletter, Fight’s On! Vol 8, Issue III, Fall 2009. These dome trainers use MetaVR visuals. The article, "711 HPW/RHA Begins Analysis of Joint Terminal Attack Controller Training Effectiveness" describes the goal of the fidelity study is to define the requirements JTACs will need to maximize the realism of the training received in simulated training events.
- MetaVR's co-founder W. Garth Smith is interviewed in the article "Preparing Mission Ready Operators" in the August 2009 issue of Military
Training and Technology. Starting on page 22, the article describes the challenges of training UAS operators and surveys several simulation technologies and training systems in use, including UAS programs that use MetaVR's visualization technology. Also in this issue, in the Polygons and Lumens section on page 3, is an annoucement of MetaVR's new geospecific 3D Afghanistan terrain.
- MetaVR's new Afghanistan 3D terrain and quotations from an interview with MetaVR's co-founder W. Garth Smith are in the article "The CG Factor", in the July-August 2009 issue of Military Simulation and Training. The article, which starts on page 16, discusses computer generated visual and sensor imagery and includes MetaVR in the discussion of the necessity of dense, complex terrain to mimic real life in training databases used to train today's warfighters. Although low density simulated terrain might be suitable for training pilots, training combined forces (as in JTAC exercises) requires accurate complexity for conducting exercises involving high speed aircraft, UAVs, and vehicles and targets on the ground.
- A VRSG screen capture taken of MetaVR's new Afghanistan 3D terrain is featured on the cover of the August-September 2009 issue of Training and Simulation Journal.
- Two video clips of MetaVR scenarios featuring simulated unmanned vehicles are included in AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Footage of August 2009.
- MetaVR's virtual Ft. Campbell Cassidy MOUT site is featured in Taryn Simon's TED Talk of July 2009. Simon talked about her photographic project "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar", which documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public. One location she photographed and spoke of (at 10:12) was the MOUT site at Ft. Campbell, KY, and MetaVR's virtual terrain and scenario of the MOUT site. The locations featured in the talk and more are documented in her book, "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar".
- The Distributed Missions Operations Center (DMOC) simulators that use MetaVR VRSG for JTAC training, are described in the article "U.S., Coalition Troops to Rehearse For Combat in Simulated Afghan War" in the
July 2009 issue of National Defense magazine. The article describes how US, UK, Canadian, and Australian teams of JTACs train in the new DMOC simulators by peering through special binoculars that provide a 360-degree virtual view of the battlefield and by communicating on radios with air operations centers, fighter pilots, and other aircrews just as they would in the field.
- The Army National Guard's XCTC portable combat training system, which uses MetaVR visuals to monitor the movements of soldiers in tactical exercises, is described by CBS affiliate, WWTV/WWUP-TV 9&10 News in "High-Tech Troop Training Comes to Northern Michigan", its report with video footage about the predeployment drills taking place during July and August 2009 at Camp Grayling, MI. VRSG also provides the visuals for the XCTC after-action review, which takes place after an exercise is finished.
- MetaVR's Afghanistan database is featured on page 19, in the Raster section, of the July 2009 issue of Geospatial Intelligence Forum (GIF).
- MetaVR will exhibit its products and technology in Booth #1345 at I/ITSEC 2010, which will be held November 29 – December 2, 2010, at the South Building of the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL.
- MetaVR is the lead sponsor of the annual Close
Air Support Conference and Exhibition, to be held November 3 - 4, 2010, at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Mayfair, London.
- MetaVR demonstrated its products and technology in ZedaSoft's Booth #109 at the AAAA 2010 Conference which was held April 14-17, 2010, at the Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX. The booth featured MetaVR, ZedaSoft, Immersive Display Solutions, Scalable Display Technologies, and Plexsys showing their integrated simulation training solution for mission rehearsal.
- MetaVR participated in the Wharton Aerospace 2010 Conference, which was held January 22, 2010, at the Wharton campus of the University of Pennyslvania, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St. Philadelphia, PA.
- MetaVR exhibited its products and technology in Booth #2380 at I/ITSEC
2009, which was held November 30 - December 3, 2009, at the Orange County
Convention Center, Orlando, FL.
- MetaVR was the lead sponsor of the annual Close
Air Support Conference and Exhibition, which was held October 28 - 29, 2009, at the Royal Aeronautical Society, Mayfair, London. At the event, MetaVR exhibited its products and technology and demonstrated the role of VRSG in JTAC training and its benefits to the trainees. MetaVR also demonstrated its new Afghanistan terrain, built specifically for CAS/JTAC training with an emphasis on identifying and defeating IEDs.
- MetaVR has collaborated with L-3Com/Link on the paper A Method to Compensate for Display System Contrast Ratio Differences in Distributed Simulation, which was presented at the IMAGE 2009
Conference & Exhibition, July 13 - 16 2009, at the Chase Park Plaza, St. Louis, Missouri. On July 15, L3 presented the paper at the Distributed Sensing & Visualization- Part 1 session.
- MetaVR was invited to demonstrate its products and technology at the ANG TACP/ASOC Simulation Summit,
hosted by the 182nd Air Support Operations Group IL ANG, which was held June 22 - 26, 2009, at the Peoria Air National Guard Base in Peoria, IL.
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