New Night Vision Technology Introduced

Training helicopter pilots to use night vision goggles is challenging, especially when the cost of the mistake can be deadly. A new program for consumer PCs allows learning, rehearsal and the experience of surprise without dreadful consequences. HotNVG is a highly accurate simulator for night vision goggles.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2004 -- Flight simulators for years have helped train pilots. Now, new technology on consumer PCs allows pilots to accurately train with night vision goggles (NVG). The new technology, called HotNVG, is unlike the green images in computer games or in current simulators. HotNVG creates appropriate halos, noise, bloom, shadows, and reflections and manages high dynamic range imagery for increased accuracy.

Using the NVidia programmable graphics pipeline, HotNVG is intimately coded into the graphics chip to provide very high performance at a low cost. Parameter control is provided over sky conditions, humidity, moon phase and temperature. The flight database engine is compatible with industry standard OpenFLT and a sample database of the training terrain board used by Air Force Research Labs has been developed and integrated into HotNVG.

Tested by pilots and instructors for accuracy, the synthetic imagery is meticulously compared in detail against actual field use. Through these detailed comparisons and a unique physics based approach, HotNVG is accurate enough to astonish it's users. Although still new, HotNVG is already being deployed into large aerospace firms and government labs.

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SimVisLab is a private research firm focused on exotic problems. Active and past projects involve physics based simulation for speciality sensors, sonar, radar, DTV and non-linear dynamics. The research team works on a contract basis for a variety of large and small customers.

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