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Join Jim Kogler, Director of COTS Products, as he enumerates the many new aspects of VR-Forces 4.1. Available in January 2013, VR-Forces 4.1 will focus on better scenarios and increased usability; features will include scriptable tasks using LUA, large and streaming feature data sets, bombs, mortars, ballistic munitions model, force independent entity creation, increased entity types, MSDL laydown and support, and enhancements to 3.12 features including tactical graphics and tactical smoke and hazard cloud displays.
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A Payload Operator Station in a browser? A Stealth viewer built on Google Earth? HLA federates written in JavaScript? An IOS running on iOS? From WebGL to WebSockets, the latest technologies enable browser-based modeling and simulation applications that are powerful and lightweight – high-performing, yet accessible anywhere.
VT MÄK is building on our twenty years of interoperability expertise to link web-based applications with traditional HLA and DIS federations. Join us in this webinar to learn how MÄK can put web technologies to work for your program, whether you’re operating in a closed lab, or over the internet.
We’ll introduce you to the WebLVC protocol, prototyped by MÄK and proposed as the basis for a new SISO Standard. See how the MAK WebLVC Server can speed your web development by delivering data from native simulations directly to your browser-based applications. And take a test drive of the future of M&S on the web with our WebLVC Testbed. This webinar will be led by Len Granowetter, MÄK’s Vice President of Products and Solutions, and Chair of the SISO WebLVC Study Group.
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There are a lot of ways to build a terrain database for visual simulation. This webinar will step you through the process MÄK used to create a virtual Hawaii using a combination of 3D object modeling, site model integration, and streaming features from VR-TheWorld. We'll discuss the database techniques used and explain how each matched the design requirements of the Hawaii database.
We'll talk about how we used VR-TheWorld to provide the entire planet as a background; how we found source data on the internet to add high resolution elevation, imagery, and features for the island of Oahu; how we mapped the feature data to automatically generate 3D cultural models; how we added specific models to increase fidelity in the neighborhood of Moanalua, how we used the features to facilitate vehicle traffic; how we cut site models into the Honolulu Airport; and how we used imagery produced by Harris to smooth out the transition between the low resolution ocean and the high resolution Honolulu imagery.
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As unmanned vehicle systems continue to proliferate, interoperability standards have begun to emerge for the dissemination of remote sensor video and the related metadata. This webinar looks at the MISB standards and the architectural changes required to shift from Image Generation for manned training devices to Simulated Video for training and developing UVS control stations.
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Jim Kogler, MÄK’s Director of COTS Products an active member of SISO, will help you gain an understanding of HLA Evolved. How will this new standard affect your simulation project? What are the benefits and drawbacks of implementing it? How will MÄK help you adopt it?
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You have multiple simulations and training applications. You need them to interoperate with a multitude of distributed simulation standards, how do you choose which one to use? DIS? HLA? Evolved? 1516?
This interoperability overview will provide an introduction to the standards and discuss the pros and cons of each approach. Aarron Dubois, Product Manager of MÄK’s Link products will share his expertise and insights gained working on MÄK’s industry leading interoperability products. Whether it’s Distributed Interactive Simulation, High level Architecture, or the latest approved standard, HLA Evolved, Aaron will give you the basic information you need to implement the right standard for your project.
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You have a requirement for a complex Command and Staff Trainer. You have a deadline. And you have a busy staff and a tight budget. A COTS application development platform can give you the start to meet your deadline and fulfill requirements, while keeping your budget numbers on track. Mark Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer, discusses his experience using VR-Forces as a platform for Command and Staff Trainer development and customization, highlighting how the software’s flexible approach and robust performance can give your program a strong starting point. Join us to hear how MÄK’s simulation solution VR-Forces can provide the platform for your innovation.
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The next generation Air Traffic Management systems are being developed in the US and Europe under the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programs respectively. This requires significant concept development, research, engineering, validation and demonstration. All of these are being supported by simulation.
The military and other Government agencies are starting to make greater use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) that must also fly through the commercial airspace and mix with civilian air traffic. Enabling this will take several years to achieve and require significant ongoing research and development and collaborative efforts between the ATM providers, military, local agencies, and prime contractors.
What is required is a collaborative, distributed modeling and simulation environment ideal for simulating and visualizing the next generation ATM systems and airspace. VT MÄK’s suite of products can help make this a reality. This webinar will explain how MÄK’s products can help:
- Link disparate simulations and real systems into an integrated simulation-based experimentation and integration environment;
- Create a common synthetic environment for all participants;
- Provide a flexible 3D visualization of the simulation from multiple different perspectives; and
- Supplement existing simulations with representations of UAS’s, ground traffic, military aircraft and the ATM communications network.
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DIS. HLA. Evolved. 1516. Distributed Simulation Interoperability comes in a lot of flavors, each with its own benefits and potential challenges. Join us for a quick introduction to these standards and learn how MÄK can help you easily implement the right network standard for your simulation. Aaron Dubois, Product Manager of MÄK’s link products and an active member of SISo, will help you gain an understanding of interoperability standards in simulation. Whether it’s Distributed Interactive Simulation, High level architecture, or the latest approved standard, HLA Evolved, Aaron will highlight how MÄK’s twenty year pedigree in interoperability can make your simulations work together.
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This overview of VR-Forces 4.0 highlights the latest capabilities of MÄK’s simulation environment with its next generation VR-Vantage-based GUI. The webinar, hosted by VR-Forces Product Manager Nathan Kidd, discusses bringing streaming terrain from OGC standard terrain data servers, like VR-TheWorld Online, to the simulation engine; how the unified GUI allows you to switch between 2D and 3D scenario navigation and editing; and other new features.
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B-HAVE, MÄK’s artificial intelligence plug-in to VR-Force, can help you create produce a richer and more visually compelling scenario. Learn how to use B-HAVE to create powerful behaviors, populate simulations with diverse crowds, develop complex entity behaviors, and develop intelligent ground vehicle navigation through the terrain.
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Visualizing military exercises at various locations around the world can be challenging. Have you ever wanted to get a tactical view of a battle in a vast desert? Maybe check the status of your perimeter security cameras? Or get a picture of enemy locations in a dense urban setting? This webinar highlights the latest additions to the VR-Vantage product line, including the capabilities of VR-Vantage XR.
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Learn how you can easily populate your scenes with human characters and to integrate simulation specific human activity into your simulations using the integrated DI-Guy plug-in for VR-Forces and VR-Vantage Stealth. In this webinar Dan Brockway, our Director of Technical Marketing, will show you how to populate a simulated world where human and animal characters dominate the scene. He will demonstrate techniques for setting the appearance of human characters and tasking them to behave according to plans defined in the scenario and to automatically react to their surroundings.
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Let’s face it — terrain is hard. There are a lot of valid ways to do it and each way meets particular needs. Terrain Agility embraces these different approaches and allows your simulations to stay flexible and relevant in a steadily developing industry. So how can you utilize a terrain agile application that will support a wide variety of elevation, imagery, and feature formats? The cheapest, easiest, and best way is with VT MÄK’s VR-inTerra. Jim Kogler, VT MÄK’s Director of Commercial Products, answers questions about the terrain interoperability problem and how to achieve Correlated Terrain Agility with VR-inTerra.
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Command & Staff training is a challenge. A realistic operations center environment combined with appropriate scenario-driven, decision-making opportunities are critical in generating “experiential learning” for commanders and their staff. Providing this training capability, as needed, at low cost, just adds to the challenge. For more than ten years, VT MÄK has supported the US military with desktop training systems for Command & Staff training, built on the foundation of our COTS tools. Our Battle Command simulation is the result. It’s a mature, constructive, and synthetic environment for practicing a full spectrum of military security & combat decision-making tasks.
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You know VR-Forces is flexible. You know VR-Forces is powerful. But do you know how to get the most from MÄK’s simulation toolkit? Bob Holcomb, MÄK Solution Engineer, will do what he does best - offer solutions to popular customer questions. He’ll also offer tips and tricks that can help you maximize the power behind VR-Forces.
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Helicopters are marvelous vehicles. No other vehicle can take off vertically, hover, bob to the left and right, spin around, fly backwards, then land in a confined area. Realistically simulating helicopters is a challenge due to the complexity of controls and flight dynamics models. How do you integrate realistic helicopter models into combat gunnery trainers, crew trainers, and pilot part-task trainers? At this webinar, MAK will show you how RT Dynamics’ RotorLib’s flight dynamics model (FDM) and intelligent controller fit into the VR-Forces simulation framework to allow three distinct levels of helicopter simulation fidelity: Autonomous flight modes suitable for air defense artillery, threat ID, and reaction to combat operations; joystick controlled flight in support of crew training, sling load, and gunner training; and interactive flight using helicopter cyclic, collective, and pedals for pilot screening or navigation, radios, and weapons training.
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Even with standard distributed simulation protocols, getting simulations to interoperate can be challenging. There are lots of letters – HLA, DIS, TENA, FOM, RTI. How do they fit into your simulation? And why do you need them?
This webinar provides a brief tour through the world of distributed simulation and the protocols that make it possible. We outline the primary approaches to interoperability and show you the benefits of each. You’ll come away with a better understanding how to connect things together, provided by the people known for connecting things together.
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Simulations that operate over large geographic areas often have terrain databases that are tiled to support terrain paging. Join MÄK’s director of visualization products, Brett Wiesner, as he explains how MetaFlight is used within VR-Forces and VR-Vantage applications. He'll be describing some of the different ways MetaFlight databases are organized to support terrain, virtual texture and cultural feature datasets.
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Let us show you how to build a UAV experimentation laboratory using MÄK’s products and our partner’s products. We will describe how VR-Forces is used for the UAV Flight Controller and Background Scenario Generator; GL-Studio to build the UAV Control Station; VR-Vantage with SensorFX tailored to stream UAV sensor video; Qualnet/Exata to emulate the communication network effects on the streaming video; and SimMetrics to analyze the sensor coverage.
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This webinar will show you how you can add sensor channels to transform VR-Vantage from a visual scene generator to a sensor scene generator. Our featured guest presenter, Russ Moulton, President of JRM Technologies, introduces you to SensorFX, a sensor module for VR-Vantage. Moulton describes how SensorFX models the collection and processing of sensing device properties to render accurate electro-optical (EO), image intensifier (NVG), and thermal imaging (IR) scenes.
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Information is the key to winning the battle. The competitive advantage of a well-informed war fighter is the goal of network-centric warfare (NCW). This doctrine impacts everyone in the M&S and C4I worlds, whether you are working on R&D, systems engineering, or C4ISR. For a realistic battlefield simulation, you need to model communications. MÄK and Scalable Network Technologies are bringing NCW to simulation with inter-entity communications, radio and communications network infrastructure modeling, and real world communication effects, like time delays and network constraints. At this webinar Dan Brockway, MÄK's Director of Technical Marketing, will show you how to create a rich synthetic battlefield environment using VR-Forces, MÄK’s simulation toolkit. He’ll detail how to create a simulated world where sensor models perceive the events taking place, entities use radios to send spot reports, and the receiving entities change their behavior in response to the communication.
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Finding the right solution for your 3D visualization has probably left you feeling a little like Goldilocks. This one doesn’t support your terrain format. That one isn’t documented. The other is based on old technology. What you need is a solution with the right fit. Dan Brockway, MÄK’s Director of Technical Marketing, will show you why VR-Vantage is the solution that fits – fits your simulation system, fits the way you work, and fits your budget.
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This webinar will show you how we have adapted our tools to address the issues inherent in urban simulation. It will introduce you to the primary components of our urban simulation tool suite - VR-Forces and B-HAVE. B-HAVE allows VR-Forces entities to intelligently find their way through buildings and alleys, avoid obstacles, and allows you to quickly drop in crowds and background vehicle traffic and much more to help you easily create a realistic urban battlefield. VR-Forces with its new 3D GUI gives you ability to interactively develop scenarios within urban environments.
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Every simulation system has its own unique set of criteria and requirements. In each case, design and configuration trade-offs must be analyzed to determine the optimal solution. How should my host simulation communicate with my Image Generator? How do I integrate a battlefield view into my Instructor Operator Station? How is my brief/debrief station interacting with the entire simulation system? Architectures must consider every component of the simulation system to be able to deliver a fully-compliant system. This webinar works through several real world simulation architectures and breaks down the design process to help you understand the pros and cons of each approach.
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Are your simulation requirements growing? Do you need to simulate tens of thousands of entities in your scenario, but encounter only limitations? Having trouble with tools developed to support thousands of entities that can’t scale to meet new requirements that are orders of magnitude larger? This webinar shows how MÄK is addressing simulation scalability by leveraging diverse technologies including multi-resolution modeling, interest management, multicast filtering, cloud-computing, and the HLA’s Data Distribution Management (DDM).
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VR-Forces 3.12 brings a wealth of new features to MÄK’s industry-leading CGF toolkit and it also marks the debut of the VR-Vantage-based VR-Forces 3D front end. This new release features improved front-end performance and ease of use, better terrain agility, improvements to the Entity Editor, OPD Editor and indirect fire, as well as the implementation of weather effects on sensors, POW modeling, tactical smoke, and True Aggregates.
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Have you ever marveled at how “virtual globe” applications and web-based mapping tools effortlessly stream terrain data from a remote server as you move about the world? Don’t you wish it was that easy to get terrain information into your own simulation and visualization applications? This webinar introduces VR-TheWorld Server - an open-standards-based streaming terrain server built specifically for the needs of the Modeling and Simulation community. In this webinar, we demonstrate how to connect to VR-TheWorld Server - not only from MAK's own VR-Forces and VR-Vantage applications, but from 3rd party clients such as Google Earth and Open Layers web controls. We also demonstrate the web-based configuration interface that you can use to upload your own data to VR-TheWorld Server to augment our default global basemap.
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With version 1.3, the VR-Vantage product line continues to expand and add value to your simulation. We show you useful features of VR-Vantage, answer your questions and walk you through the latest additions. We also show you how the new VR-Vantage PVD provides a really easy way to add 2D Tactical Map Displays to your simulation. We also introduce VR-Vantage FreeView, our new free terrain and model viewer. In addition to the new applications, we show off some new capabilities including sensor volumes, inter-visibility lines, symbol decorations, grid lines and more!
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With version 1.2, the VR-Vantage product line continues to expand and add value to your simulation visualization. In this webinar, Brett Wiesner, Product Manager for MAK’s Visualization products, walks you through the latest additions and demonstrates useful new features. He’ll show you how the new VR-Vantage XR combines the best of 2D and 3D perspective for a more accurate and comprehensive common operating picture. And how MÄK continues our commitment to Terrain Agility with the addition of a MetaFlight Loader to support large area terrain databases. He’ll also highlight the Remote Draw API, Interest Management, and Entity Configuration. Learn how VR-Vantage products can help you visualize the virtual world.
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