A NATO commissioned serious game is the first of its kind to achieve full deployment on Google’s Play Marketplace. A portion of the serious game, developed completely in VBSWorlds, a Caspian Learning/Bohemia Interactive Simulations product, is now available to download for free from Android devices.
The Swedish company Division By Zero with the immersive product jDome has signed a global reseller contract with Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim). Primarily BISim work in the military training and simulation area but they are steadily breaking through into other areas where thorough training is imperative to ensure protection and safety.
The cooperation enables customers all over the globe to set up a truly immersive training station in less than 10 minutes.
Pittsburgh, PA – TerraSim is pleased to announce the release of major updates to TerraTools, the complete synthetic environment development toolkit. These updates include all new functionality for the TerraTools VBS2, Steel Beasts Pro, and OpenSceneGraph exporters, as well as improvements to TerraTools Core. All TerraTools customers receive these new features at no charge under their maintenance contracts.
Simthetiq is proud to announce the use of their VBS2 fully interactive Leopard 2A5 vehicle model in a demonstration at this year’s CANSEC. The Virtual Battlespace2 (VBS2) configured model will be featured in a new Tank Demonstrator which will be showcased by defence company, Rheinmetall.
MONTREAL, Canada (May, 2011)
Simthetiq announced today a successful integration of a new functionality within the VBS2 platform. The addition—targeted towards battle tank simulators—incorporates a fully working, dynamic clock (peri-UHR), unlocking an added potential to the vehicle’s optics which would normally have remained static.
Bohemia Interactive is very excited to announce that the game-based call-for-fire training platform, VBS2Fires, is now licensed by all ABCA Armies as a virtual training tool!
VBS2Fires is a mature VBS2 module that provides both individual and collective high-fidelity call-forfire training. Tightly integrated, VBS2Fires allows any indirect fire platform within VBS2 to provide realistic fire support, from towed howitzers through to MLRS and naval gunfire. The system includes instructor interfaces and full after-action review.
TrianGraphics releases a new Trian3D Builder exporter to eSim Games’ Steel Beasts Pro format, that adds to Bohemia Interactive’s VBS2 and various other visual and logical export formats. Thus Trian3D Builder’s simplified approach to terrain generation, that is also addressing operators without profound technical background, is available for another platform.
TerraSim, Inc. will demonstrate a significant advance in the generation of geo-specific buildings for use in the Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BIS) Virtual Battlespace 2 runtime.
Currently, VBS2 users who develop geo-specific 3D models are restricted in the overall length and width of a constructed building, as well as the number of geometry vertices which can exist in a single model. These constraints making it almost impossible to place large buildings like skyscrapers and commercial complexes in the VBS2 runtime.
The U.S. Army’s Virtual Battlespace 2 (VBS2) shooter game is less than two years old, but the service is already laying plans to replace it, and that’s a tricky task.
“The technology moves so fast that a company we’ve never heard of today could be the front-runner when we put a solicitation out,” said Lt. Col. Michael Newell, who manages air and command tactical trainers at the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). “Three years ago, before we awarded the VBS2 contract, if somebody said ‘Bohemia,’ the answer would have been ‘Bohemia who?’” Read the rest of the story at DefenseNews.com.
Users to benefit from greater interoperability between VBS2, Creator, & Terra Vista tools
Orlando, FL – IITSEC – November 29, 2010 – Presagis™, a leading provider of commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics solutions, today announced that it is working collaboratively with Bohemia Interactive Simulations, a leader in providing game-based simulation technologies and integrated training solutions for military and civilian organizations, to ensure optimization of Presagis Creator and Presagis Terra Vista for production of content for the VBS2™ simulation environment. By tightly aligning roadmaps and engineering efforts the companies will ensure their mutual customers will be able to maximize the use of, and investment in, their products through greater ease in developing simulations based on them.
