Even in the early days of computing, businesses were looking at computers as tools for setting up complex simulations. Some credit Keith Douglas Tocher for developing the first discrete-event ...

Using a virtual workspace, Interplay Learning’s newly updated HVAC training program allows users to practice the tricks of the heating and cooling trades from the comforts of a controlled space.

With Time Machine, the underlying Windows servers remained on the correct real-world time to maintain security and ...

It’s been a couple years since Nextgov last talked with company officials from Bohemia Interactive Simulations—BISim for short—the group that makes realistic simulation and virtual reality training ...

We learn by doing. It was either Aristotle or Sir Richard Branson (it was probably both) who said it, but we learn by doing things, working out our behavior and actions in real-life scenarios through ...

The Army’s new tools for coordinating helicopters, tanks, and infantry are on track for delivery to selected units in 2024, but are already teaching some soldiers lessons about modern warfare. In one ...

A locally based Army team is conducting its first user assessment of the synthetic training environment in Orlando, Fla., as it works to develop the military’s most advanced integrated training system ...

TakeFlight CEO Brandon Seltz takes the controls at a workstation equipped with software that guides users through the flight training process. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) RENTON, Wash. — The makers ...

The integration of personal computers into the normalcy of daily work and life is so ubiquitously intertwined, we hardly notice or pay much attention to it. It is everywhere. Smart technology is in ...

Building a robot that can reliably perceive, plan, and act in the real world is hard—especially when conditions change minute ...

The three-man team made its way down the hallway walking fast, but not running. The point man was armed with an H&K MP5. He had it shouldered and was searching forward over the weapon sights, the gun ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- One conundrum to providing a realistic and immersive virtual training experience for Soldiers is portraying computer-generated people and objects behind real things, and doing so in ...