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NATO demand for Calian’s realistic real-world immersive military training

April 17, 2024

Calian has been providing training to NATO for fifteen years, delivering over 75 large-scale exercises. Calian has supported diverse exercises, including for high-intensity, counterinsurgency and peace support operations, wargames and nuclear deterrence.  Calian supports complex NATO exercises with subject matter experts, role players, scenario developers, and with master events lists. Given ...

BAE Systems puts AR tech into a headset the size of regular glasses

September 17, 2019

BAE Systems has announced that it has finalised the prototype of its augmented reality (AR) glasses in the form of a lightweight headset. The milestone marks the penultimate stage of the product’s development, and demonstrates the technology’s future capabilities. When finished, the head-worn display will offer unrivalled head-tracking and imagery stabilization, ...

Dstl specialists successfully trial virtual reality collaboration

Homeland March 14, 2019

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has held its first-ever virtual reality (VR) collaboration – with staff based at different Dstl sites meeting in cyber-space to collaborate on building a virtual aircraft engine. This first trial was a success, leaving the way open for more virtual meetings, including supporting training ...

Multi-user VR platform launched

Homeland July 5, 2017

Immerse, the British technology company delivering fully designed immersive VR environments to industry has launched the world’s first enterprise-ready multi-user VR platform. Hailed as a revolution for training systems, VR is set to be a $4.5Bn industry by 2020 and Immerse has positioned itself as one of the leaders of the ...