(December 2020)  Serious Simulations was notified that the Italian Army has officially accepted a custom version of Serious Simulations’ ready2train™ virtual reality Infantry training system as a certified training system for the Italian Army.  Serious Simulations’ solution is the chosen technology for all of the hardware sets and is running custom game software written by Bohemia Interactive Simulations and Interconsulting DbA (Rome, Italy).  The program is managed by Leonardo DbA (Rome, Italy).

Various quantities of two types of ready2train™ systems were delivered by Serious Simulations for the Italian Army:

– a completely untethered version with a custom made wireless helmet mounted HMD and wireless instrumented weapon

– a wired version of the system with a robust but unobtrusive overhead trolley system for carrying wired data without introducing   tripping hazards to the trainee

The industry unique middleware for stimulating the animations of VBS4 avatars with realtime tracking data was written and provided by Serious Simulations in a plugin brand-named Serious ArtIKulations™.

Serious Simulations, in partnership with Interconsulting, is looking forward to increased sales of its unique hardware, and the provision of technology upgrades to the Italian Army for virtual reality Infantry training in 2021 and beyond.

For 2020, National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) created a new virtual event called vIITSEC that took place November 30 – December 4, 2020. The conference theme, “The Future is Now,” could not be more appropriate.

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2020 FLORIDA SIMULATION SUMMIT

For the first time, the 2020 Florida Simulation Summit was a fully digital event, where keynote speakers and industry experts from around the world discussed how Central Florida can harness the region’s MS&T expertise to tackle present and future challenges.

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Orlando, FL (28 July 2020) – Orlando-based Serious Simulations has engaged in three projects for General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) that contribute to the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Live (STE Live) Force on Force training initiative.  Under the Army’s new program, it intends to revamp live training and fill gaps currently existing in live training using laser-based systems (aka MILES).

Of particular note, the Army awarded a contract to GDMS to provide a workable solution for short range indirect fire systems, such as the M320 Grenade Launcher, which is not exercised at all in the current MILES laser-based systems.

Serious Simulations was chosen as the provider of an M320 Grenade Launcher hardware system to enable soldiers to use their real weapons in training.  Serious Simulations has accumulated much experience in this area of weapon instrumentation for training.  The current project contains electronics that fit the weapon unobtrusively, and report shot events to the networked system of training entities.  The GDMS architecture applies correct physics to the shot event, and adjudicates hits or misses on opposing force entities, and stimulates their feedback devices.

Serious Simulations has also won additional work for two other real weapon systems to be integrated into live force on force training.

Importantly, the new weapon instrumentation systems for real weapons also integrate with MILES, until the STE Live Force on Force program can be fully developed for all weapons.  So, these new systems will provide an immediate fill to the gaps left in laser-based training systems.

Gary Hall, Chief Engineer for Disruptive Technologies at GDMS stated “We were glad to continue work we started with Serious Simulations under previous efforts, and apply it to solutions needed for the STE Live Force on Force program.  The team at Serious Simulations had unique weapon instrumentation capabilities to rapidly achieve our near-term goals, as well as capabilities that will help us meet additional weapon system training gaps for the US Army.”

“Our team is grateful for the opportunity to work with a world class defense corporation to create a positive impact and improve Soldier combat training.  We have been developing instrumentation packages for weapons with no playable counterparts in the MILES laser-based training suite.  So, we hope that adoption products will help U.S. Army combat units conduct much more realistic and complete training”, said Christopher Chambers, CEO of Serious Simulations and retired U.S. Army officer.

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For more information media should contact –

Christopher Chambers, Serious Simulations, 407-538-1927, cchambers@serioussimulations.com

About Serious Simulations, LLC:  Serious Simulations LLC, an Orlando based Veteran Owned simulation business, designs immersive training systems using custom made hardware and software components for specific skill training needs, combined with motion tracking systems, wireless communications devices, wireless display technologies and commercial game engines. It has unique approaches to integrate real devices and weapons into simulators.  It produces wireless video technology and wireless head/helmet mounted displays (HMDs) with very high resolutions and wide fields of view.  Serious Simulations’ professional grade VR training systems center on military, police, emergency responders, and professional grade sports and entertainment experiences.  For more information, visit our web site at www.serioussimulations.com .   Inquiries:  info@serioussimulations.com.      

About General Dynamics Mission Systems:  General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), provides mission critical solutions to those who lead, serve and protect the world we live in. We are a technology integrator and original equipment manufacturer with deep domain expertise in ground, sea, air, space and cyberspace. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, General Dynamics Mission Systems employs more than 13,000 people worldwide. For more information about General Dynamics Mission Systems’ broad portfolio of capabilities, visit gdmissionsystems.com and follow @GDMS on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Orlando, FL (31 March, 2020) – Orlando-based Serious Simulations has innovated another big industry first – the introduction of a highly accurate machine gun tracker for use in Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) training simulations, and has applicability to various combat operations.

The device, branded as Accutrack™, affixes easily to standard military machine gun mounts to enable incredibly accurate tracking of the weapon’s orientation, to less than 1/100th of a degree.  Amazingly different from other tracking devices, the device introduces zero drift issues which are common in other VR and AR devices.  (Drift is a condition where the physical device gets out of synchronization with the virtual device and introduces negative training, or causes simulations to be halted and recalibrated.)

Serious Simulations’ machine gun tracker is already utilized throughout the entire fleet of the U.S. Army’s Virtual Clearance Training Suites, which train Combat Engineer soldiers for engagements with the enemy in Engineer vehicle operations.  The award of a U.S. patent solidifies its novel approach for high accuracy tracking of crew served weapons in training and operations.

“We developed this device initially to solve an inherent problem with machine gun training systems in that they suffered from Virtual Drift.  Our devices are impossible to induce drift.  We realized that the tracking device had many more purposes than VR and AR training, and could be used to remotely control and memorize targets for machine guns in fixed emplacements during combat,” commented Chris Chambers, retired Army officer and CEO of Serious Simulations.

The Accutrack™ device not only tracks weapons with extremely fine measurements, with Zero drift possible, but it does so as an external attachment to a standard weapon mount. In addition, the device enables the mount to operate normally, even enabling weapon change-outs with no impact.

The company plans to offer its machine gun simulator to other training programs and to combat mounts for remotely controlling machine guns and other crew served weapons.

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For more information media should contact –

Christopher Chambers, Serious Simulations, 407-538-1927, cchambers@serioussimulations.com

About Serious Simulations, LLC:  Serious Simulations LLC, an Orlando based Veteran Owned simulation business, designs immersive training systems using custom made hardware and software components for specific skill training needs, combined with motion tracking systems, wireless communications devices, wireless display technologies and commercial game engines. It produces wireless video technology and wireless head/helmet mounted displays (HMDs) with very high resolutions and wide fields of view.  The industry-leading wireless HMDs, and wireless VR add-ons, are available separately or as components of Serious Simulations’ professional grade VR training systems for military, police, emergency responders, and professional grade entertainment experiences.  The company is a partner in the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) network. For more information, visit our web site at www.serioussimulations.com .   Inquiries:  info@serioussimulations.com.