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Virtual Reality Platform Helps Pilots Land in the Sky
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
A pilot can practice landing on a virtual runway in the air, thanks to a Fused Reality platform built by Hawthorne, California-based Systems Technology Inc. SBIR contracts from Armstrong Flight Research Center helped the company turn a ground-based system first developed by the Air Force into an in-flight simulator. By superimposing virtual elements over a view of the real world, it allows for safer, more accurate, and cheaper training. The technology will also help plane manufacturers evaluate and design aircraft.