The Chilean Army uses The Spanish technology of AR and virtual of Bienetec for its training

This Valencian company, through its Aumentaty division, It has developed a tool for the Chilean Army that combines multi-touch technology with augmented reality and virtual reality for strategic military training.

Aumentaty, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Division of the Spanish company Bienetec, based in Valencia, He has participated together with the Chilean company I-Trag International in the development of a tool for strategic military training of the Army of this country.

The solution is the development of a multi-touch application that works on a table and allows you to add bookmarks, place them on any point on the table, to later make a composition of a 3D augmented reality scene.

The application allows you to assign 3D content to each marker located on the screen (Helicopters, Tanks, Aircraft, Etc.), that can be imported from a model database, and in which it is also possible to add files created using 3D creation software, of objects scanned in three dimensions or downloaded from the Internet.

The different augmented reality scenes created on the multi-touch device are stored for later selection and use in military strategic training. This tool will also include an app for HMD devices, so that the user who uses it visualizes the 3D objects on the markers that appear in the scene shown by the multi-touch device.

El General Humberto Oviedo Arriagada, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, has expressed interest in this project and its use in education, as a clear example of this institution's commitment to the incorporation of new technologies in military training. The same, Esteban Anguita, Chief Innovation Officer at Aumentaty, He pointed out that the culmination of this joint project "allows the company to continue to maintain its position as a benchmark in the development of augmented reality applications, multi-touch and virtual reality".

Augmented reality technology mixes virtual images with real images. Unlike virtual reality, that immerses the user in a completely artificial environment, It allows the user to maintain contact with the real world while interacting with virtual objects.

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