VT MÄK and DI-Guy Announce DI-Guy Software Integration into MÄK Stealth and VR-Forces
DI-Guy Brings Enhanced Human Characters to MÄK’s Simulation and Visualization Products
Cambridge, Mass., September 17, 2008 ― VT MÄK, (MÄK), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), and DI-Guy, a company of Boston Dynamics, today announced the integration of the DI-Guy product into MÄK Stealth and VR-Forces. Under a partnership agreement, MÄK has licensed DI-Guy for use in MÄK’s simulation and visualization products. This new DI-Guy functionality, distributed exclusively by MÄK, is available immediately at no additional charge.
With these new features, users can bring their simulations to life by populating their scenarios with more realistic human characters. Using the VR-Forces graphical user interface (GUI), users can select specific characters to add to their scenario from DI-Guy’s library of models. They can assign these characters animations from hundreds of motions that model human behavior, like walking or swimming. These motions are derived from live motion capture for a realistic effect. The DI-Guy characters and actions can be displayed in 3D in the MÄK Stealth and VR-Forces 3D GUI.
DI-Guy is the leading commercial-off-the-shelf software used for adding remarkable, life-like humans to real-time simulation. DI-Guy features hundreds of life-like characters that perform thousands of activities. The characters available include soldiers, civilians, flight deck crew, policemen, emergency responders, opposing forces, suspects, cyclists, people in wheelchairs and even horses.
VR-Forces is MÄK’s software toolkit for generating and executing battlefield scenarios. It can be used as a tactical leadership trainer, threat generator, behavior model testbed, or computer generated forces application. The VR-Forces 3D GUI allows users to drag and drop models directly within the 3D scene to interactively create, place and task entities. Entities can be rotated and moved into position behind doors, on the stairs between floors, under a bridge overpass, anywhere in the 3D scene. VR-Forces customers include RUAG, the Thales Watchkeeper UAV program, and Raytheon’s DDG 1000 program. The MÄK Stealth provides a 3D view of the virtual battlefield. A key component of after action review, the MÄK Stealth excels at visualizing non-visual information like fire and detonation lines, trajectory histories, sensor volumes, and entity labels.
"DI-Guy is delighted to be chosen by MÄK to be their solution for human character visualization and simulation across the MÄK product line, including VR-Forces and MÄK Stealth. We’re sure that their customers will appreciate the lifelike motions, wide range of realistic appearances, and ease-of-use of the DI-Guy characters. DI-Guy and MÄK have enjoyed a long history of working together because of our complementary product lines and we’re excited to see that relationship broadened further with this agreement."
Bill BLANK
Product Manager, DI-GUY
"DI-Guy has long been the leader in human simulation software and we’re pleased to be formalizing this partnership. We’re proud to offer DI-Guy capability as a standard feature across our entire visualization and simulation product line. With this enhanced suite of fully-correlated and pre-integrated COTS tools, we’re saving customers money and development time, and drastically reducing program risk."
Warren KATZ
Chief Executive Officer, VT MÄK
"The battlefield has moved to the city and our customers are looking for solutions to the challenges of simulating an urban environment. The DI-Guy integration complements our B-HAVE AI module and the VR-Forces 3D GUI as another key element of our urban simulation strategy."
Len GRANOWETTER
Director of Product Development, VT MÄK
