Recent News

Products

• Release of VRSG Version 5.4
• MetaVR's New 3D Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Entities
• MetaVR's New 3D Future Combat System (FCS) Entities
• VRSG's Character Animation
• 3D Layering Control Plugin for ESRI ArcMap
• Asia 3D Terrain
• North America 3D Terrain
• MetaVR's 3D Terrain Products
• MetaVR's Enhanced 3D Content With Human Characters

Technology

• Video Clip of VRSG Real-Time Sensor Effects
• Vermont Air National Guard Virtual Airfield Terrain for F-16 Simulation
• Upgraded Content in Ft Benning Database
• MetaVR's Available 3D Terrain Databases
• Metadesic Virtual Terrain Visualization Architecture
• Tiefort City Content Added to NTC Database
• 3D Terrain for UGV Future Combat Systems

Case Studies

• JTAC Virtual Trainer Dome Prototype
• Insitu UAS
• Edwards AFB USAF Test Pilot School
• Ongoing MetaVR Visuals in TUAV Embedded Visual System Trainer
• Continued Deployment of A-10 Full Mission Trainers to US Air Force
• JES' Simulation Storage Systems for the A-10 Program Using FIBRE SAN Technology
• VR Group's Simulation Solutions for the Czech Armed Forces
• Lockheed Martin F-22 Simulator
• Modeling Soldier Characters From DSTO Photographs
• Littoral and Underwater Simulations
• National Guard Bureau's XCTC Program
• Northrop Grumman Aerial Refueling Operator Simulator
• NASA's Use ofMetaVR VRSG in T-38N Advanced Astronaut Trainer
• Baghdad 3D Terrain at Combat Studies Institute
• How MetaVR Constructs 3D Models for Urban Environments

Press

• MetaVR VRSG sensor effects are discussed in the article, "Visuals and Sensors", starting on p.14 in Issue 2/2008 of Military Simulation & Training. The issue also features on its cover a VRSG real-time screen capture from the company's 3D Baghdad database.
• MetaVR VRSG is featured among technologies used to train JTACs in the "A Significant Improvement in the Way They Train", in the 13.2 issue of Military Training Technology.
• The use of MetaVR VRSG for UAV emulation is described in the article "Virtual Hammer" in Lincoln Laboratory Journal Volume 16, Number 2, 2007. The article describes Lincoln Lab's integrated sensing and decision support (ISDS) experiments with new interactive, operator-in-the-loop simulation environment, currently being used to explore the potential for synoptic-level sensors to cue unmanned aircraft.
• The use of MetaVR visuals in Lockheed Martin's JTAC Virtual Trainer Dome prototype at AFRL is mentioned in the Silicon Alley section of the December, 2007, issue of Military Training and Technology. The issue also mentions MetaVR in its survey of 3D simulation technology used as a tool in military training.
• MetaVR's plan to showcase new features of the forthcoming release version 5.4 of VRSG at I/ITSEC 2007 was cited in the article "I/ITSEC Spotlight: Show with an Edge", in the December, 2007, issue of Training and Simulation Journal.
• MetaVR's Virtual Reality Scene Generator is mentioned in the paper "Detection threshold of visual displacement in a networked flight simulator" (Covas, Gaska, Shamp, Pierce), presented at the Advanced Deployable Day Night Simulation Symposium, DRDC-Toronto, November 13th-14th, 2007. This research, presented by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Link Simulation & Training, aims to determine the detection threshold of visual displacement for a typical flight task, formation flight, as a function of simulated distance and smoothing. The real-time visual scenes were rendered with MetaVR VRSG.
• An interview with MetaVR co-founder W. Garth Smith is in the September, 2007, issue of Military Training and Technology. Also in this issue, MetaVR won two awards in the magazine's annual Top 100 list; MetaVR's 2007 awards for "Innovation" and "Up-and-Coming" mark its fifth consecutive year on the list.
• MetaVR's Baghdad database is shown in the July, 2007, issue of Army Magazine, in the article, History With a Purpose. This article describes how the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) uses historical staff rides to educate soldiers by using insights gained from the past. The CSI training includes virtual staff rides using MetaVR's Baghdad database.
• MetaVR is mentioned in the March 13, 2007, issue (#88) of The Escapist, in the article, Virtual Bullet, Virtual Gun, which describes how MetaVR systems are used at the UAV Training Center at Fort Huachuca, AZ, in a 21-week training program to certify Army graduates to fly UAVs. The article also mentions the role of MetaVR MUSE systems in the 2004 Army-sponsored UAV demonstrations across the country at NASCAR races.
• MetaVR is featured in the February-March, 2007, issue of Training and Simulation Journal. In this issue, which has on the cover a VRSG screen capture of MetaVR's Baghdad database, MetaVR is interviewed in the article, "Building Street Cred" which discusses the latest advances in simulated urban warfare training for troops prior to their deployment to Iraq.
• MetaVR is listed among the technology companies developing synthetic vision systems with the goal of increasing air travel safety in the daily science radio series Earth & Sky December 30, 2006, program #5061 "Synthetic Vision could make air travel safer".
• MetaVR is mentioned in WRSystems' description of their data analysis and visualization solutions for the US Navy, which cites how VRSG, among other tools, is used in rapid prototyping for designing effective interfaces to navigation systems.
• MetaVR's visualization technology is mentioned in the RAND Corporation's book, "Preparing for the Proven Inevitable: An Urban Operations Training Strategy for America’s Joint Force", published in 2006. In the discussion on pp. 50-51 about the importance of high-resolution terrain in modeling dismounted movement, small robotic systems, and interior fighting in urban operations, General Dynamic's use of MetaVR visuals is cited, and a screen capture of MetaVR's Ft. Benning database is shown. The March, 2006, report on which this book is based is available as a pdf.

Trade Shows

• MetaVR exhibited its products in Booth #1901 at I/ITSEC 2007, which was held November 26-29, 2007, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL.