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Serious Simulations, an Orlando based Veteran Owned Small Business, designs immersive training systems for professional level Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality training.  The company’s technical approach has always been to be as realistic as possible, and has innovated ground breaking Wireless VR techniques, Wireless Helmet/Head Mounted Displays enabling human peripheral vision, wireless instrumentation of real weapons and tools in simulators, unique real time animation of VBS4 avatars, and extremely high accuracy machine gun tracking systems.  

Brands: ready2train (simulator) accutrack (high accuracy machine gun tracker) weapon skins (wireless data sensors for real weapons) reformatter (zero latency wireless video transmission)

Visit our booth at this years I/ITSEC 2019 show in Orlando, Florida, December 2nd – 6th.

Orlando, FL (22 Oct 2019) – Orlando-based Serious Simulations has innovated another industry first – wireless video transmission for simulations and games to stream real time video to head mounted displays (HMDs) with zero latency. The U.S. Patent office issued a patent for a technology that Serious Simulations considers its Generation 1 of wireless video for simulations and game.
The technology has been in use by several simulation and commercial location based entertainment companies for three years under the brand name of ReformatterTM. This conclusive action by the U.S. patent office officially recognizes and protects the company’s innovation as unique and protected.

The new process sends zero latency wireless video/audio/data transmissions to head mounted displays with delivery of pixels to the display in only 17 microseconds. This is the fastest video transmission technique to date. It represents the company’s desire to achieve real time video transmission to HMDs in all conditions and for all resolutions.Generation 1 video/audio/data transmission allows manufacturers to utilize commercial LCD and OLED displays of the smart phone industry combined with commercial wireless radio transmitters in the 60 GHz range. The methodology requires one printed circuit board and a tiny file of code to be inserted in the game/simulation code. Before the Serious Simulations invention, transmissions using this pipeline suffered from buffering a full frame of latency. This invention reduced the all-important latency measure from 16.67 milliseconds to less than 17 microseconds – a 1000 fold improvement.
“Serious Simulations began tackling the problem of latency in video transmissions to HMDs, because it is vital to effective training in virtual and augmented reality without sickness and disorientation,” said Chris Chambers, founder of Serious Simulations. “We could not produce our desired VR and AR training products as serious training devices, with high levels of latency. We saw that no solution existed on the market, so we undertook our own approach. Generation 1 is just the beginning. Our Generation 2 product is under way with much higher resolutions and frame rates.”

The current patent is applicable to a wide variety of commercial displays in a variety of resolutions up to and including 1920×1080 and frame rates of 60 FPS.
The company produces HMDs using its patented wirelesss video transmission technology and offers the technology to other company’s HMDs as well.

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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.

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 

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, in partnership with Bohemia Interactive Simulations, demonstrated their untethered real time human motion dismounted training simulator at I/ITSEC 2018.