SOF Week 2024
MVRsimulation at SOF Week 2024
MVRsimulation joined forces with PAR Government, Samsung, and Battlespace Simulations at SOF Week 2024, to answer the question, “Why is it that when you go to train in a virtual environment the equipment and technology used is different to the equipment and technology that is used to conduct every day operations?”
Visitors to the Samsung booth (#3211) were able to experience a collaborative, mixed-reality simulation-based environment designed to allow users to train in a way that is realistic, while incorporating individual technology and operational capabilities.
The demonstration was based around a simulated replica of the live training exercise carried out by multi-national Special Operations Forces at SOF Week 2022. The scenario was carried out on the Deployable Joint Fires Trainer (DJFT), in a brand new VRSG geospecific virtual replica of Tampa Bay, with a VRSG-simulated MQ-9 RPAS sensor feed (complete with KLV metadata) providing overwatch for the trainee's ATAK application, provided by the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 device.
The DJFT at SOF Week 2024, with the Samsung ATAK device pulling VRSG sensor feed from PAR Government’s Sit(x) TAK server, and the Varjo XR-4.
The MVRsimulation DJFT at SOF Week 2024, running a Special Operations Forces training exercise scenario in VRSG's virtual Tampa Bay terrain.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 ATAK device pulled the VRSG sensor feed direct from PAR Government’s Sit(x) TAK server, and integrated it with MACE, giving users a tactical ATAK capability that closely replicates the equipment they use in the field. In ATAK, the VRSG video stream is overlaid on the tactical map to ensure all parties in a mission are correlated on the correct target. Using the KLV metadata embedded in the VRSG video stream, ATAK can display the aircraft's position marker as well as its sensor point of interest.
Samsung Galaxy ATAK device and DJFT Observer station, both displaying BSI's MACE Link16 data and VRSG video stream being pushed from PAR Government's Sit(x) TAK server.
Samsung device displaying BSI's MACE integrated with the trainee Observer's scope sight as viewed within the Varjo XR-4 headset, pushed from PAR Government's Sit(x) TAK server.
In order to replicate the live scenario, MVRsimulation built a high-resolution virtual representation of the Tampa Bay area. The terrain was built from with VRSG’s existing Tampa terrain dataset, part of the CONUS NAIP Southeast terrain drive. This dataset includes 1-meter NAIP imagery and elevation data compiled from 10-meter NED. A high resolution 3D model of Tampa Bay was then created using CyberCity 3D, Inc.'s 3D's high-resolution model, textured using CityEngine, and compiled into the terrain.
The terrain includes more than 32,000 procedural city model buildings; a number of geospecific building models, including the Tampa Convention Center and the iconic 345 Bay Shore Condominium building; road infrastructure; more than 4,000 tree models.
A real-time 3D model representative of the cruise yacht that is permanently moored in the harbour was also built and placed in the virtual terrain. Other VRSG 3D models used in the scenario include MH-6 Little Bird and MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter (complete with switch state animation showing Special Operations personnel fast roping from the MH-60 onto the deck of the yacht), special operations ATVs, and SOCR MK VI Riverine craft.
A VRSG real-time 3D model representative of the cruise yacht that is permanently moored in Tampa Bay was a key part of the SOF Week demo.
A VRSG real-time 3D MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter model with switch state animation showing personnel fast-roping onto the deck of the yacht.