O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Intelligence Gaming announced their Immersive Cultural Simulation Product today, which uses a highly specialized Flex Application designed for Flash Player 10 to deliver full panoramic 360 degree video and 8 channels of binaural audio to users. Users participate in the simulations through use of a specialized headset that projects the display through goggles and the audio through a headset and moves the scene to correspond with changes in the user's head orientation.

Intelligence Gaming built the simulator as part of a new training program for the Army, which leverages the immersive technology to train soldiers in situational awareness outside of real danger. Read the full entry to learn more about the technology used in this project as well as more details about the simulations themselves.