VT MÄK ANNOUNCES VR-THEWORLD TERRAIN SOLUTION
- Date:18 May 2010
VT MÄK ANNOUNCES VR-THEWORLD TERRAIN SOLUTION
Open-Standards-Based Streaming Terrain Server Provides Web-Services Approach to Delivering Terrain Data
London, May 18, 2010 – VT MÄK (MÄK), a company of VT Systems Inc. (VT Systems), today announced the launch of VR-TheWorld Server, a new streaming terrain solution. This new solution supports a “virtual globe” style approach where simulation and visualization applications stream terrain directly from a server as users move about the world. It brings a direct-from-source, web-services-based approach to delivery of terrain data, bypassing the often time-consuming task of terrain database generation. The server was developed in conjunction with MÄK partner Pelican Mapping, a company that specializes in GIS, 3D visualization, mapping, and location-based services.
Users can deploy VR-TheWorld Server in their facilities; on private, secure networks to provide streaming terrain data to simulation and visualization applications behind a firewall. VR-TheWorld Server can be easily populated with users’ custom data through a web-based interface or MÄK can provide data to meet project specific requirements.
To allow customers to experience the streaming terrain concept, MÄK is offering an online service called VR-TheWorld Online – an instance of VR-TheWorld Server hosted in the cloud. VR-TheWorld Online delivers a global base map and a representative set of high-resolution areas. Users just point their client applications at VR-TheWorld.com, and their 3D world is automatically filled with elevation data and imagery for any area of the globe as they fly through the world.
VR-TheWorld Server and VR-TheWorld Online work out of the box with MÄK’s VR-Forces and VR-Vantage applications. And because they are built around open standards like WMS (Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Mapping Service) and TMS (OSGeo’s Tile Map Service), any customer or 3rd party application that supports these standards (including web apps) can access VR-TheWorld.
“Access to high quality, accurate, original-source-based geospatial terrain data anytime, anywhere, for any location on earth, instantaneously and at very low cost has been the Holy Grail of the simulation world for decades. VR-TheWorld is a watershed product that will change the way simulations interface with terrain."
~ Warren KATZ
CEO, VT MÄK
“Last year, MÄK implemented streaming terrain on the client side in both VR-Vantage and VR-Forces. Now, we are proud to offer a complementary solution for the server side. VR-TheWorld Server and VR-TheWorld Online are the latest examples of our commitment to Terrain Agility in MÄK products.”
~ Len GRANOWETTER
Vice President, Product Division, VT MÄK
MÄK will be participating at ITEC 2010 (Booth #G140) to be held in London from 18 – 20 May 2010.
Pricing and Availability
VR-TheWorld Server will be available in Q3 of 2010. VR-TheWorld Online is available now at no cost to VR-Vantage and VR-Forces customers and for trial use by others. For additional information and pricing, please contact sales@mak.com
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VT MÄK, a company of VT Systems, develops software to link, simulate and visualize the virtual world. MÄK creates tools and toolkits for distributed simulations, develops PC-based military tactical and operational trainers, crafts custom solutions, and researches and develops the latest simulation technologies. The company builds commercial off the shelf simulation software that is flexible, portable and supported. MÄK puts its distributed simulation expertise in each of its interoperable products, from the VR-Link networking toolkit, to VR-Forces, MÄK’s computer generated forces toolkit. MÄK’s worldwide customers include ITT Industries, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Thales, Tenix, Dassault, and BAE. Please visit www.mak.com
VT Systems is a diversified company providing solutions to the commercial and government markets in the aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine sectors. VT Systems products and services include aircraft inspection, maintenance and modification; software solutions in training and simulation; satellite-based IP communications technology; network solutions that integrate data, voice and video; rugged computers and computer peripheral equipment; specialized truck bodies and trailers; weapons and munitions systems; road construction equipment; and shipbuilding. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., VT Systems operates globally and is a wholly owned subsidiary of ST Engineering. Please visit www.vt-systems.com
Media Contacts:
Michelene K. St. Amand
Director, Marketing Communications
MÄK
Tel: (1) 617 876 8085 ext. 144
Fax: (1) 617 876 9208
Email: mstamand@mak.com
Sarah Thuman
Manager, Corporate Communications
VT Systems
Phone: (1) 703 739 2610
Fax: (1) 703 739 2611
Email: sthuman@vt-systems.com
