SERIOUS SIMULATIONS FEATURED ON FOX 35 NEWS NEWS SEGMENT “GUN TECHNOLOGY COULD DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD GUYS, BAD GUYS”
Serious Simulations was featured on WOFL Fox 35 News. Click on the image to the left to view the article and video segment!
SERIOUS SIMULATIONS FEATURED ON SPECTRUM NEWS 13 ON THE ARMED GUARDIAN PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS IN FLORIDA
Serious Simulations was featured on Spectrum News 13 on their solution suite for arming teachers and guardians for Florida’s schools. Teachers are the first line of defense in active shooter scenarios in schools and Serious Simulations has a technological solution to make arming teachers with safety at the forefront of their thinking. Click the below to view the news segment.
SERIOUS SIMULATIONS WINS SECOND “GOOD DESIGN” AWARD IN ELECTRONICS FOR 2018
Veteran Owned Small Business recognized for a unique and innovative Football Virtual Reality headset
Orlando, Fla. (January 30, 2019) – Orlando-based Serious Simulations’ Football VR Training Headset was selected as one of the top designs of any electronic product in the world. This marks the second time that the company has received this prestigious award for one of its unique Virtual Reality headset designs.
The headset is designed specifically for elite level football players at the professional and college levels to use Virtual Reality simulators to augment live training.
The headset was the result of a design partnership with Peter Solomon Design, but the technology is proprietary to Serious Simulations. It builds upon the company’s industry unique approach in the design of wireless, extremely wide field of view, high resolution head mounted displays for virtual reality.
“We are very proud of the headset design, from an engineering perspective, as well as how it enhances the Virtual Reality experience,” said Christopher Chambers, CEO, Serious Simulations. “The enabling of human peripheral vision in the virtual experience is key to accomplishing realistic training for elite sports athletes, and the low latency wireless package allows complete athletic freedom of movement in the simulator.”
For more than six decades, the GOOD DESIGN Award, given annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press, has showcased the best industrial, product and graphic design from around the world.
Other winners this year include major electronics manufacturers Apple, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, Google, and Logitech.
The Chicago Athenaeum’s description of the Football VR Training Headset Pro can be found HERE
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.
SERIOUS SIMULATIONS INVITED TO DISPLAY UNTETHERED INTERACTIVE VR WITH BISIM AT I/ITSEC
Serious Simulations, in partnership with Bohemia Interactive Simulations, demonstrated their untethered real time human motion dismounted training simulator at I/ITSEC 2018.
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BISIM AND SERIOUS SIMULATIONS DEMONSTRATE NEW TECH SUPPORTING REAL-TIME ANIMATION FOR VR/AR TRAINING IN VBS3
ORLANDO, Fla. (USA) — Serious Simulations, an Orlando-based, Veteran-owned simulation company, will join Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a global developer of advanced military simulation and training software, at BISim’s booth (#2235) during I/ITSEC 2018 to demonstrate new software that enables motion capture and other tracking technologies to utilize natural human motion to animate the avatars in a VBS experience, in real time.
Serious Simulations leveraged technology from IKINEMA Ltd, a world leader in Motion Capture data processing, to build the plug-in that integrates the IKINEMA solver to the various versions of VBS3 software. The new technology for VBS3 is called Serious ArtIKulations™, which uses human motion tracking data (via optically tracked rigid bodies) to control the motions of a trainee’s avatar in VBS3. The initial version uses 6 DOF, sub-millimeter accurate Motion Capture data tracked directly from the natural human motion of the trainee via lightweight passive reflective markers or active LED markers to animate the trainee’s avatar. Serious ArtIKulations accomplishes full avatar motion in real time by blending the optical tracking data seamlessly with some VBS3 avatar animation data of the lower body.
“In real-time, interactive tactical training such as a squad’s task of clearing a building, you need to be able to track a human trainees’ movements and immediately articulate the VBS3 avatar’s movement to reflect the actual movements of the human being trained,” said Chris Chambers, Serious Simulations’ CEO. “Infantry squads practicing tactical maneuvers use different communications methods including hand and arm signals that make motion tracking critical for effective training. We track selected points on the actual upper body and use an Inverse Kinematics Solver to calculate other body part positions which greatly improves simulation efficiency and reduces latency.”
Serious ArtIKulations™ is available for use with VBS3 v18.3 and has been tested with VBS STE, part of BISim’s new technology suite which combines an enhance VBS simulation engine with VBS Blue whole-earth rendering.
“Serious Simulations’ Serious ArtIKulations™ technology helps fill a critical training gap for dismounted infantry training,” said Pete Morrison, BISim’s Co-CEO. “With the growing emphasis on VR and AR for use in training within the mil-sim domain and the advent of more affordable consumer VR peripherals, the ability to accurately capture and reflect realistic human movement will help increase immersion and improve training.”
Individual and group real-time animation with weapons will be supported in Serious ArtIKulations™. Upcoming versions will expand the capabilities to other tracking systems and provide for user-driven customizations, such as the number, type, and location of markers.
About Bohemia Interactive Simulations
Founded in 2001, Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation and training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. Our mission is to harness the explosive potential of technology to revolutionize training and simulation. BISim utilizes the latest game-based technology and a large, experienced in-house team of engineers to develop high-fidelity, cost-effective training and simulation software products and components for defense applications.
About Serious Simulations
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
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