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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 ...

Future learning solutions

June 6, 2017

With 2016 seeing the release of the next generation in AR/VR headsets, promising a more immersive experience than could be had previously, 2017 is set to be the year Augmented and Virtual reality breaks the mould particularly in the training sector. Augmented and Virtual reality have been used in training solutions ...

Military MRO: Solving the Maintenance Skills Shortage with Augmented Reality

May 30, 2017

Maintaining sophisticated military equipment across land, sea and air is a difficult enough challenge when the required resources are readily available. So how can the military balance equipment availability with a reactive and compliant maintenance strategy and supply chain when the number of skilled engineers is limited? Here, Graham Grose, ...