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ITEC 2016

May 12, 2016

ITEC 2016 is Europe’s premier industry conference showcasing the latest innovations in simulation and training. The show gives attendees the chance to see how militaries around the world use simulation for training and offers industry leaders a chance to discuss future developments in the industry.

Bohemia Interactive Simulations will have a significant presence at the show, demonstrating new capabilities in its flagship simulation software VBS3 and new VBS-based simulation products for a range of military simulation and training applications.

Visit BISim and partners at Stand #E110.

What you’ll see from BISim at ITEC 2016

Demonstrations

At ITEC 2016, BISim and partners will showcase a range of new products, capabilities and training applications at stand #E110. These include the following demonstrations:

 
An innovative VR-based flight simulator concept employing VBS Blue, BISim’s new 3D planetary rendering technology, and exploiting D-Box Technologies motion solutions, Oculus Rift CV1 for immersion, Leap Motion for cockpit interaction and Flex-Air for flight models.
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A highly immersive close air support training scenario designed and run by FAC training consultancy Close Air Solutions using BISim’s VBS IG for multichannel display, VBS3 as the host simulation, and SimCentric Technologies’ VBS3Fires FST. The scenario will be conducted on geo-specific virtual terrain generated by TerraTools, and displayed on a 6-channel, 3-meter dome from Immersive Display Solutions and utilizing powerful Barco projectors.
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A prototype integration of constructive simulation MASA Sword with BISim’s VBS Blue planetary rendering technology. The integration enables users to view Sword’s command-staff constructive simulation in a 3D geo-specific virtual environment. Integrated in a few days, the demo showcases the flexibility of VBS open architecture.
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The new Building Designer tool from TerraSim for quickly and easily creating destructible, enterable building models in VBS3, VBS2 and VBS IG.
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New capabilities in VBS3 v3.9.0, including VBS Chalkboard for mission planning, enhanced mortar simulation and a brand new in-game user interface for modular personal weapon attachments. Watch a video here.
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Presentations

Military User Group Briefing

Wednesday, May 18th 13:30 - 15:30, in South Gallery 3 and 4

The next VBS User Group Briefing will be held at ITEC and chaired for the first time in several years by a military user. In addition to briefings on the BISim and TerraSim product development roadmaps, the briefing will feature a presentation from the South African National Defence Force on a project using VBS3 as part of an LVC integration project. Register to attend here.

Beers of the World

Wednesday May 18, 17:30 - 19:30, at Stand E110

Join BISim staff and booth partners for a sampling of beers of the world.

Innovation Showcase

Thursday, May 19, 10:15 - 10:45, in the exhibit hall

BISim’s Co-CEO Pete Morrison presents a talk at ITEC 2016’s Innovation Showcase titled “Continuous Innovation in the Virtual Battlespace.” We will show some of the latest innovations in the Virtual Battlespace, including new technologies such as VBS Blue for planetary rendering and VBS Control, which is our new AI development toolkit for VBS3. We will also be highlighting our VBS Blue-based demonstrations at ITEC, including training solutions that have never before been seen in the military simulation industry.

Closing Plenary

Thursday, May 19, 14:30-15:30, in Theatre 1

BISim’s Co-CEO Pete Morrison joins a panel discussion for ITEC 2016’s closing plenary on the future of the simulation industry, following Frost & Sullivan’s presentation on the future of the Military training and simulation market over the next 10-15 years.

Booth Partners

terrasim

TerraSim will showcase Building Designer, a new product that simplifies the creation, configuration, and export of geo-specific P3D enterable building models for use in Virtual Battlespace (VBS). TerraSim will also demonstrate MaterialMAP 2, the newly released version of our image classification and surface map generation software.

TerraSim Inc., a Bohemia Interactive Simulations company,is a leading technology company that specializes in the development of advanced software solutions to automate geospatial source data preparation and terrain generation. Our products are designed to be flexible, scalable, and compatible by continuing to support the widest range of visual, constructive, and serious game runtimes in the military simulation and training industry.

For more information about TerraSim or our products, visit us on the web at www.terrasim.com or email us at sales@terrasim.com.

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Barco

Barco a global technology company, designs and develops networked visualization products for the Entertainment, Enterprise and Healthcare markets. Answering to the demands of the training and simulation industry, Barco has developed a complete range of dedicated projectors. By offering different technologies (DLP or LCoS) with their specific benefits, we can deliver the projectors that best suit your needs. BISim's close air support training demo will utilize high-performance Barco projectors.

 

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Close Air Solutions

Close Air Solutions is a single source deliverer of all aspects of international Close Air Support Training for Forward Air Controllers (FAC), Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs), Aircrew, and the wider military community. CAS intelligently integrates Consultancy, Course Design, E-Learning, Simulation, Aviation components together in a complementary blend using bespoke needs-based course design, cutting edge methods and media, combined with assured expert instruction. Our expertise, as well as our extensive operational experience, is born out of a long internationally recognised history of provision of ‘best of class’ training to FACs, JTACs and Aircrew.

 

Close Air Solutions
Cubic Defence

Cubic Defence is a proven supplier of live, instrumented training across the globe. Now, not only is the Battlegroup supported in live training; Cubic Defence UK Ltd (CDUK) is leading the way augmenting training across Company, Squadron, Battlegroup and Brigade (Tier 0 to Tier 3) by providing the full spectrum of effect to Commanders at all levels. In February 2016, CDUK were awarded Micro-SCOPIC, the British Army’s Collective Training Synthetic Wrap capability programme and will use VBS3 as part of the virtual solution.

CDUK’s approach to the Live, Virtual and Constructive domains puts the control of mission execution back into the hands of the Commander and his/her Team. Calling for fire and delivery of effects is seamlessly integrated into training, with an ability to overlay instrumented, live, joint training with representative virtual systems and geo-referenced terrain in order meet complex Training Objectives.

Cubic Defence
D-BOX

D-BOX develops state-of-the-art COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) motion technology for training and simulation applications. D-BOX's motion systems are used anywhere people need to experience kinesthetic training for critical operations — army, air force and navy training and analysis. Affordable and easy to integrate, D-BOX technology creates true-to-life, immersive motion effects when paired with high fidelity simulation engines. See D-BOX motion cueing technologies combined with VBS and the Oculus Rift CV1.

 

D-BOX
Immersive Display Solutions

Immersive Display Solutions offers complete visual display solutions as well as individual COTS display components for permanent or deployable display solutions that meets our clients’ unique requirements. Offering both multi-channel and single optic display systems, our solutions are ideal environments for the simulation of highly immersive experiences including flight, driving, ground combat, marine, situational awareness or any other civilian, government or military operations that benefit from either a panoramic or completely immersive presentation of the activity. BISim’s close air support training demonstration will shown a 3-meter dome from Immersive Display Solutions.

 

Immersive Display Solutions
pix4D

Founded in 2011 after more than ten years of leading scientific research, Pix4D has become the main provider and industry standard for professional image-processing software. Pix4Dmapper software automatically converts images taken by hand, by drone, or by plane, and delivers highly precise, geo-referenced maps, mosaics and 3D models. They’re customizable, timely, and complement a wide range of applications and software. See demonstrations of Pix4D for use with VBS.

 

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SimCentric

SimCentric is an industry leader in the creation of software applications and development tools for military simulation and synthetic environment training. SimCentric’s unique procedural, behavioral and training support applications turn the quality “out-of-the-box” VBS environment into tangible, relevant and scalable training outcomes.

SimCentric offers a wide range of mature COTS software solutions dedicated to enhancing your synthetic environment training. Realize the full capabilities of your VBS simulation environment through the use of SimCentric software development tools and solutions such as VBSFusion, the official API of VBS3, VBS3Fires and VBS3Fires FST for call for fire and close air support training, and Ambience for adding pattern-of-life elements to virtual environments.

SimCentric

Contact Us

We would love to see you at ITEC. If you're going, please visit us at booth #E110, or email freya.king@bisimulations.com to arrange a meeting with us.

Media and press inquiries, please contact Tess Butler.

ITEC 2016