VR-Vantage Products

The VR-Vantage product line includes:

  • VR-Vantage XR
    The best of traditional 2D and 3D displays with an Exaggerated Reality view for a more complete Common Operating Picture
  • VR-Vantage Stealth
    3D visualization tool with a focus on information about your virtual battlefield
  • VR-Vantage IG
    Realistic 3D scenes of your virtual simulation environment
  • VR-Vantage Toolkit
    The power to customize and build VR-Vantage-based applications

VR-Vantage products provide views tailored to fit your simulation design, fulfilling a wide variety of visualization needs.

Fit the Way You Work

Run-time Control

VR-Vantage is designed to fit the way you work. While VR-Vantage applications are running, you can reconfigure your windows and display channels, compose or load your terrain, edit model mappings, and connect to a DIS or HLA distributed simulation exercise.

Whether you’re flying freely over the terrain, or following an entity as it moves through the scene, 3D navigation is easy in VR-Vantage. We’ve combined the best elements of first-person-shooters, real-time-strategy games, and “spin the earth” virtual globe applications, to provide an interface that you’ll find familiar the moment you start to use it.

Terrain Agility

At MÄK, we understand the challenges of developing correlated distributed simulations. That’s why we built VR-Vantage products to be Terrain Agile.

Many 3D tools put the burden on the user to construct terrain in a format or structure that is specific to the tool. But VR-Vantage can directly load a wide variety of industry standard formats produced by a number of database tools (including the only MetaFlight loader available for OpenSceneGraph based applications). You can also compose terrain “on-the-fly” directly from source data ― without the need to pre-build a terrain database! Raw elevation is dynamically tessellated into polygons with your imagery draped on top and point features are automatically replaced by 3D geometry based on mappings you configure from a GUI. VR-Vantage leverages osgEarth technology from Pelican Mapping to bring streaming elevation and imagery data directly from web-mapping services into your simulation. You no longer have to worry about setting up a specific “playbox” for each scenario. Now, the whole world is at your fingertips.

With VR-Vantage, you can load site models with dense urban buildup and thick vegetation as well as tiled terrain databases that page in over large areas. You can extract buildings and other models from the terrain and manipulate them. Turn specific buildings semi-transparent to see human characters interacting inside.

Fits Your Budget

Built-in Content

VR-Vantage products come with a rich set of top-quality 3D entity models from companies like Simthetiq and RealDB that support attached parts, damage representations, and articulated parts such as turrets and guns. Built-in support for Boston Dynamics’ DI-Guy, DiSTI’s GL Studio, IDV’s SpeedTree, and Sundog’s SilverLining means that you don’t need to buy, integrate, and configure extra modules to have great looking human characters, interactive cockpit displays, dynamic trees and bushes, weather effects, and volumetric clouds. HLA and DIS support through MÄK’s own VR-Link networking toolkit is included, so that interoperability is a given, not an add-on.


Flexible Licensing

Flexible licensing options allow you to have a lab full of ready-to-use applications at reasonable prices, or the ability to deploy applications without burdening your users with run-time license mechanisms. Developers’ licenses for partner add-on products are only necessary when you extend or customize these tools.

Fits Your View

With multiple ways of displaying information and infinite ways to customize, extend and create visual applications, VR-Vantage products fit the way you need to view the virtual world.