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Finland's Varjo have added real-time chroma keying and marker tracking as early access features for its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Varjo say it is the first company to deliver chroma keying in real-time for mixed reality devices. It is an industry-standard technique known as green-screening and used in broadcasting... 10 March 2020
Fujairah Aviation Academy (FujAA) has partnered with Alpha Aviation Academy UAE (AAA) and will deliver part of its pilot training programme. AAA cadets will spend three months at FujAA’s campus in Fujairah undertaking the Core Flying section of their pilot training. The cadets will then return to the Sharjah... 10 March 2020
Software developer Peter Moore will give a presentation at IT²EC 2020 on VR technology and how it can aid conduct after capture training. One of the core conference themes at IT²EC 2020 is “Emerging Solutions: Propelling Today's Advances into the Digital Twin Age". Moore's session will explore how military training... 9 March 2020
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has released updates to VBS3. VBS3 20.1 comes with VBS Map, a new HTML-based external map tool, enhanced civilian Artificial Intelligence (AI) pedestrian and traffic pattern-of-life behaviors (available for multiplayer use through the VBS3 Bundle), a new modular helicopter instrumentation system, and more than 100... 9 March 2020
The release of VBS Blue IG 20.1 includes the latest updates to the company’s high-performance, 3D whole-earth image generator, including updates to VBS Blue’s atmospheric modeling for more realistic rendering, performance optimizations to display thousands of AI entities in a scene, improvements to terrain detail including 3D trees and... 9 March 2020
D3A Defence, MetaVR, Battlespace Simulations Inc and Minerva Simulation & Training will demonstrate a ‘bring your own mortar’ end-to-end virtual training system concept for mortar operations at DSET from 10-11 March, 2020. The three-station ‘bring you own mortar’ concept demonstrator will be running throughout DSET 2020, 10-11 March, 2020. 9 March 2020
American Airlines recently donated two MD-80 aircraft — one to Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, and a second to CareerTech in Oklahoma City — to help inspire and educate future aviation professionals, and the donation is already helping future maintenance technicians. Amanda Colón sits on the flight deck of... 9 March 2020
Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) has now created 100 teenage Private Pilots through its highly successful flight scholarship initiative. Supported by the James C. Ray Foundation and the SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo, this program began in 2012 with a clear and purposeful mission that has expanded and gained... 9 March 2020
Comply365 has welcomed Canadian North to its customer base with a multiyear contract that will transform the operational information flight crew members must access into “smart manuals” and improve the airline’s compliance management system. Comply365’s ProAuthor, an end-to-end operational content and compliance management system, will replace multiple disparate systems... 9 March 2020
At the International Women in Aviation conference, CAE opened its second edition of the CAE Women in Flight scholarship program, with its first airline partner in this edition: Southwest Airlines. The objective of this annual scholarship program is to inspire a new generation of professional pilots among women, as... 9 March 2020
Talespin, a spatial computing company, has raised $15 million in Series B funding, which was led by Cornerstone OnDemand, a provider of cloud-based learning, talent management and talent experience software. Cornerstone also announced an ongoing partnership with Talespin, to deliver Talespin’s extended reality (XR) training solutions to customers. HTC also... 9 March 2020
Ocutrx Vision Technologies, LLC, a technology startup developing an augmented reality headset, has announced the successful preliminary results of its Dynamic Opacity outer lens in providing safety for surgeons and operating room technicians using medical lasers. Used on the ORLenz Augmented Reality (AR) Surgery Visualization headsets, and designed to be... 9 March 2020
