That awesome beach volleyball scene aside , Goose ’s death in Top Gun still reach that movie too difficult for me to watch . And I can only assume that nullify such tragedies through adequate training is what inspired Barco to create this vaulted simulator that provide pilots with a 360 degree , unobstructed opinion of their virtual surroundings .
The name Barco might not band a chime , but there ’s a good luck you ’ve enjoyed their digital cinema projector at your theatre without know it . The company specialise in large format projection technology , which is what makes their new fully immersive simulator a world . A tumid , eleven foot diameter acrylic arena is bathed in light by thirteen projectors which , accord toReuters , each produce a ten megapixel paradigm . Lasers are then used to dead align the ejection so the seams are unseeable , make the false essence more convincing .
But alignment was n’t the biggest expert challenge in making the attic oeuvre . The light from the projectors passes the right way through the frosted dome , potentially washing out areas of the image on the other side that are supposed to be dark . And since the simulator is plan for flight training , the brighter sky percentage of the projected paradigm incline to produce a lot of ambient light inside the dome . So Barco ’s engineer had to develop a special system to deal with reflections so the line levels perfectly matched what a pilot would see in an factual aircraft .
The simulator has been in development since 2009 , but has already been purchased by the Israeli Air Force who hope to have it installed and fully operational by sometime next year . [ ReutersviaBoingBoing ]
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