Not a day goes by that we don’t read an article or hear about a piece of news involving the latest new gadget in the field. Years ago this would have been the stuff of dreams, or maybe a cool prop in a science fiction movie. Now, the military is heavily invested in augmented reality applications for its foot soldiers and vehicle operators.
The popular technology blog Read Write Web just posted an article, which focuses on military-grade augmented reality apps and how they could redefine warfare as we know it. As the article states, many of us are familiar with augmented reality to some extent. We see it on TV – the 1st and ten line that appear on the field of a televised football game, for example, or the highlighted hockey puck that races around the ice helping us to see it on TV (A little bit of trivia for you…I just learned that the original classic black and white soccer ball was designed for black and white televisions years ago to help viewers see the ball while it was in play).
The military has played a significant role in the early development of the augmented reality industry, and the article discusses one company in particular that is leading the charge for modern developments in the field. Tanagram Partners is a Chicago-based company that is developing prototypes striving to change the face of military combat altogether. Some of their work was presented last week at the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, CA, and in the presentations, attendees learned how the company’s technology could give American troops the upper hand in a hostile situation. They are developing a system of lightweight displays and sensors that would be fitted into soldiers’ helmets. The plan is to have computers, a 360-degree camera, UV and infrared sensors, OLED translucent display goggles and stereoscopic cameras, to name a few, all embedded into a helmet. This will provide a system where soldiers could communicate with a «home base» server that would collect and render 3D information into their heads-up display goggles.
Through these animations, soldiers could be supplied with data on potentially dangerous locales, situations, and buildings in real-time during combat. Tanagram executives hope, with help from augmented reality, troops could better understand their surroundings and be informed about potential threats they wouldn’t otherwise know about.
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