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Realtime OTW image generated by Quantum3D Independence 2500S featuring advanced FACETS F-16 model, volumetric clouds and dynamic shadows
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NASHVILLE, TN - Oct. 27, 2005 - Quantum3D®, Inc., a leading provider of COTS, open-architecture, realtime visual computing solutions for the Visual and Sensor Simulation Training (VSST) and Embedded Visual Computing (EVC) markets announced today at the Airlift/Tanker Association (A/TA) Convention that the Quantum3D IDX 2500S Image Generator (IG) Solution, including Quantum3D GeoScapeSE™-S synthetic environment databases, was selected by the USAF Odgen Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, for the F-16 Human Engineering Development System (HEDS) program. Quantum3D IDX 2500S is on display at A/TA booth No. 378.
The IDX 2500S will provide the HEDS program with an integrated system that provides high-fidelity simulated visual, sensor and radar channels, including out-the-window (OTW), Charged Coupled Device/Infrared (CCD/IR) and radar, to enable pilots to conduct simulated F-16 missions in order to evaluate proposed aircraft Pilot Vehicle Interface (PVI) modifications by USAF design engineers. Before the HEDS program, pilots had to communicate their ideas for PVI modifications verbally or with sketches on notepads. The ideas were then put through a very costly development and implementation process to put them on a test aircraft for evaluation.
"The HEDS program has vastly improved F-16 Operational Flight Program quality and has cut costs significantly in the development process of the aircraft Pilot Vehicle Interface." said Kenny Bennett, Director of F-16 Prototyping, Simulation and Test at the 309 SMXG Software Maintenance Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. "We selected the Independence 2500S because this IG system provides a COTS system with a common visual and material classified sensor database, correlated visual, along with IR and radar channels which met our requirements for high-performance and high-fidelity simulation within a tight budget. Quantum was acutely sensitive to our unique requirements and did all that was required to put together a proposal that met and in many cases exceeded our expectations. We have utilized Quantum systems in the past and that experience has proven that Quantum will do what they say they will do and will make every effort to satisfy the customer, an especially hard task given our unique and demanding requirements. This Quantum3D system will assist in providing an F-16 Block 30 aircraft that will be more lethal to our adversaries and more safe for our pilots"
Built on the same innovative System Level Parallel Rendering Architecture (SLPRA) as previous Independence IG generations, the IDX 2500S features enhanced IG performance and functionality achieved by system-wide technology insertion and upgrades in the system's Mantis™ Realtime Scene Management Software, IGM™ management software and within the system's rendering and channel compositor elements.
Selected for HEDS, the IDX 2500S is the sensor simulation version of the IDX 2500. The IDX 2500S features Independence's hallmark SLPRA that combines multiple NVIDIA QuadroFX® merchant graphics subsystems per channel that are synchronized via Quantum3D's patented nVSync™ precision synchronization technology and "fused" via Independence's unique Channel Compositor (CC) technology. The IDX 2500S includes Quantum3D Enhanced Sensor Simulation Technology (QUEST™), which provides physics-based, dynamic, real-time high-fidelity simulation of infrared (IR), Electro-Optical (EO), and Night Vision Goggle (NVG) devices that are fully correlated with "out-the-window" scenes and which provide high-fidelity, low-latency sensor post processing with 8 or 16-bits of dynamic range. The HEDS IDX 2500S also includes high-fidelity radar simulation channels based on Camber Corporation's popular COTS Radar Toolkit®.
For the HEDS program, Quantum3D is also providing its recently announced GeoScapeSE-S CONUS synthetic environment database which includes geospecific coverage for the entire continental United States, including numerous high-resolution insets and areas-of-interest. For sensor and radar simulation related missions, Quantum3D is providing HEDS with material-encoded versions of its popular GeoScapeSE Southwest USA database, which is a subset of the GeoScapeSE CONUS database. The HEDS IDX 2500S is also one of the first Independence systems that includes START, Quantum3D's patent-pending Scene Transition Artifact Reduction Technology, which virtually eliminates the artifacts associated with Level-of-Detail (LOD) transitions without the performance impacts and unwanted side-effects associated with traditional artifact reduction techniques such as Fade-Level-of-Detail and "database-hacks".
"It's virtually impossible for pilots to focus on the mission-at-hand and provide valuable feedback to the HEDS team unless the pilots are truly immersed in an extremely high-fidelity simulation," said Ross Q. Smith, Quantum3D president and co-founder. "All of us at Quantum3D are extremely proud that the HEDS Program has selected the IDX 2500S to fulfill this crucial mission. We believe that this design-win further validates the unique capabilities of the IDX 2500 family to meet the ongoing requirements of the U.S. DoD's most demanding training and mission rehearsal needs."
About Quantum3D
Quantum3D develops and markets realtime, open architecture IG solutions, embedded graphics subsystems, development software and support services for the VSST and EVC markets and is the exclusive supplier of NVIDIA® graphics technology for the embedded military and aerospace visual computing market. Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL. For more information about Quantum3D and the Quantum3D family of open architecture visual computing solutions, please see www.quantum3d.com.
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Quantum3D and Independence are registered trademarks and GeoScapeSE, nVSync, QUEST, START, and Mantis are trademarks of Quantum3D, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. IDX 2500S and GeoScapeSE-S containe technology that is subject to U.S. Export Control and which requires authorization by the U.S. Government for export to foreign countries. IDX 2500S systems and GeoScapeSE-S databases may not be transferred, transshipped on a non-continuous voyage, or otherwise be disposed of in any country, either in their original form or after being incorporated into other end-items, without the prior written approval of the U.S. Department of State.
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