Recent News

Products

• MetaVR's and Immersive Display Solutions' JTAC MiniDome
• MetaVR's Afghanistan Virtual Terrain for Tactical Training
• MetaVR Releases Version 5.5 of VRSG
• MetaVR Terrain Tools for ArcGIS 9
• 3D Technical Entities
• Gamepad Use With VRSG FPS
• 3D Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Entities
• VRSG's Character Animation
• Asia 3D Terrain
• North America 3D Terrain
• MetaVR's 3D Terrain Products

Technology

• JTAC Simulation Training Options Using VRSG
  
• Abderdeen Test Center 3D Terrain
  
• ROVER Device Support
• IED Detection Training
• Video Clips of Real-Time Scenarios on Afghanistan Terrain
• Video Clips of VRSG Real-Time Sensor Effects
• Vermont Air National Guard Virtual Airfield Terrain for F-16 Simulation
• MetaVR's Available 3D Terrain Databases
• Metadesic Virtual Terrain Visualization Architecture

Case Studies

• JTAC Simulation Training
• SUGV Simulation
• Additional MetaVR Visuals for TUAS Embedded Visual System Trainers
• More MetaVR Visuals for the XCTC Program
• BC Explorer Display at British Columbia Pavilion in Beijing
• Insitu UAS
• Edwards AFB USAF Test Pilot School
• Continued Deployment of A-10 Full Mission Trainers to US Air Force
• Northrop Grumman Aerial Refueling Operator Simulator

Press

• 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 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.
• 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 new Afghanistan database is featured on page 19, in the Raster section, of the July 2009 issue of Geospatial Intelligence Forum (GIF).
• MetaVR is featured in two articles in the May 2009 issue of Military Technology. In the article "Training for Convoy and Patrol Operations" which discusses virtual convoy combat training for combating IED, sniper, and insurgency threats, MetaVR VRSG is described as providing the visuals and Baghdad training database for Cubic's Warrior Skills Trainer (WST). Several images of the trainer using MetaVR's Baghdad database accompany the article. Additionally, the magazine contains an article about MetaVR's new Afghanistan database.
• MetaVR's recently awarded patent for its Metadesic 3D terrain architecture is featured in the Polygons and Lumens section of the March-April 2009 issue of Military Training and Technology.
• MetaVR VRSG visuals and Baghdad database are featured in Aero-TV Network's video clip, "Real World Training - Shadow UAV Crew Simulator". The clip contains interviews with Army staff about training UAV operators, and shows one of the Army's Shadow Crew Simulators running a scenario on the Baghdad database at IITSEC 2008. The simulators are built by AAI and use VRSG visuals.

Conferences and Trade Shows

• 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 will demonstrate its products and technology in ZedaSoft's Booth #109 at the AAAA 2010 Conference to be held April 14-17, 2010, in Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX. The booth will feature MetaVR, ZedaSoft, Immersive Display Solutions, 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.
• MetaVR visuals and new Afghanistan database were part of ZedaSoft's demonstrations in Stand C110 at ITEC 2009, held on May 12 - 14 2009 at BrusselsExpo, Brussels, Belgium. Zedasoft demonstrated the Distributed Missions Operations / Training (DMO) with its Portable Simulation Demonstrator (using VRSG as its IG) featuring exercises over Kabul.
• MetaVR exhibited its products and technology in VR Group's Booth #PAV F-079 at IDET 2009, May 5 - 7, 2009, which was held at the Brno Exhibition Centre, Brno, Czech Republic.