Pointman User Interface for Dismounted Infantry Simulation

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Pointman is a seated user interface for dismounted infantry simulation. It employs a head tracker, gamepad, and sliding foot pedals to give the user more precise control the movement of his avatar through a virtual environment. The Immersive Simulation Section at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) developed the Pointman user interface. This video explains how it works. • The Immersive Simulation Lab (ISL) focuses on the design and development of advanced interaction techniques: the way people apply devices to perform tasks. Our work emphasizes interaction with three-dimensional virtual environments. When a virtual environment is used to simulate real world actions, it becomes a virtual simulation. ISL has a long history of developing user interfaces for dismounted infantry simulation. Such an interface needs to afford extensive, immediate control over the actions of the user's avatar: an articulated representation of the user's body. Our work has focused on simulation for training the cognitive skills (decision-making and team coordination) involved in infantry combat. This translates into allowing trainees to look, move, and shoot with a similar level of performance as they attain in the real world. • For more information about the NRL Immersive Simulation Lab, visit http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/imda/rese... • For more NRL videos, visit http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/videos/. • Inventor Slide Narrator: Dr. Jim Templeman -- NRL • Developer Demonstrator: Patricia Denbrook -- DCS

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