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Another excellent example of how simulation of real situations provides training for the mind and the muscles is Linton Layout – V1 by James (FoamyUK). Using modeling done with Google SketchUp, it depicts the very challenging activities of learning both how to fly a helicopter and how to aim a weapon during that flying. Simulators provide valuable training early on and the ability to learn new twists on existing platforms. [James lives in the United Kingdom]
Amusitronix provide the cutting-edge virtual reality games and NYC Race Car Simulators that offer the totally unique entertainment experience that they were looking for.
Seen opposite the entrance to the Bullring shopping centre on New Street/ Taken on my phone and edited in Photoshop Express
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This 3D training simulator allows soldiers to become experts at the building of these armored structures before they ever step foot onto a real-world battlefield.
Игра Farming Simulator 2015 — это очередное пополнение в серии симуляторов фермера. За счет нового графического и физического движков, а также открытого игрового мира, наполненного множеством деталей и визуальных эффектов, игра выводит франшизу на новый уровень. Управляйте своей фермой: от загото...
Australia's most recognisable fighter jets put on a show at Amberley RAAF Base in south-east Queensland as pilots and engineers prepare for the famous planes to be replaced by the next generation.
Smaaash Labs develops Virtual Reality Games, Drone Simulator Games, Sports Based Games, Arcade Games in USA. Become a Franchise of Smaaash by Vending VR & Simulation Games.
Slide into the seat of a forklift and move heavy pallets around without ever moving an inch. That's the experience of learning how to be a forklift operator in the ATLAS simulator at Fort Hunter Liggett. The simulator is one of six available for virtual weapons or vehicle training before going live.
Motion Simulator - it tests my reactions and balance pre- and post-flight. And makes me feel vaguely ill. Credit: Chris Hadfield
Pima Air and Space Museum
(exhibit under construction)
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM FIXED BASE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SIMULATOR
One of only three advanced space shuttle orbiter simulators used to train NASA astronauts.
The fixed-base Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS) represents one of only three simulators once used to train astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Along with the motion-base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) and the Fixed-Base Simulator (FBS), these complex machines were used to create a series of various mission tasks ranging from full mission rehearsals down to recreating specific exercises such as atmosphere entry or launching satellites.
Predating the SMS and FBS, the GNS was built in the late 1970s and operational by 1982. Initially it was primarily used only to test and verify guidance and navigation software that would later be installed in the SMS, FBS, and orbiters. As such it originally did not have visual computer-generated windscreen displays and much of the interior was unfinished, though it did contain the same complex array of cockpit instrumentation, controls, and computer displays operated by five distinct general-purpose computers (GPC) present in actual orbiters.
Following the Challenger accident investigation, the Rogers Commission suggested that NASA invest in additional crew training simulators to provide increased and expanded training and to handle the higher frequency of missions. However, the cost of providing an additional SMS or FBS proved too expensive, so NASA elected to upgrade the GNS into a full fixed-base crew simulator that was essentially identical to the FBS.
The upgraded GNS flight deck was enhanced to provide a more realistic appearance and a full visual computer-generated imagery system for the six forward facing windscreens. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was a new science in the early 1980s and all the simulators used a first-generation CGI system, rudimentary by today's standards.
For 20 years the upgraded GNS was used interchangeably with the FBS and it is likely that every post-Challenger crew spent time in the GNS practicing launch, ascent, orbit, re-entry, and landing procedures.
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the GNS was retired in 2011. In late 2020 the GNS was used on the set of a science fiction movie due to be released in late 2021 [not sure why they’re being cryptic, its Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall]. The filmmakers modified the simulator's external appearance, making the GNS more closely resemble the outer surface of an actual orbiter, along with internal cabin modifications. Following movie shooting, the GNS flight deck was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 2021.