350 Companies Will Be On Exhibit Floor

Record numbers of exhibitors and other participants will make next week's conference and exhibition of modeling and simulation training technologies the largest of its kind in history. The event, The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, will be held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, from December 6th through the 9th.

Once confined to relatively crude flight training devices, simulation training technology, thanks to phenomenal increases in computer processing power, has infused all training for complex, dangerous and physically demanding tasks. Many real-world situations which would be impossible to recreate without huge cost or severe risk can now be modeled via simulation to be indistinguishable from reality.

New developments in the industry include dispersed training, enabling numerous participants in distant locations to participate in simultaneous virtual environments; and total sensory immersion, creating not only visual reality but virtual inputs for all the senses, thereby duplicating reality in all modes.

Among the capabilities on display by the 350 corporations on the floor of the Convention Center will be convoy and street fighting simulators used for training for Iraq; a virtual "flight training school," featuring mission pre- and de-briefs around flights in an FA-18A cockpit simulator; and a multi-player US Marine Corps tactical training environment. Numerous and varied non-military applications will also be on display, including human patient simulators; first responder and sky marshal trainers; and remote sensory devices.

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