Left Maria Dahl Aagaard, Product Marketing Manager, projectiondesign. Image credit: projectiondesign.
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Most recently, at the January 2012 IMSH conference in San Diego we had a wide-ranging discussion with her on serious gaming developments for the medical community. We have also found Christie’s Kanahele to have an uncanny awareness of the visual systems market – developed through his in-depth interaction with his customers and industry counterparts. These insights are gained, in part, by “giving back to the S&T community by bringing company customers to the annual Christie Simulation University.” Kanahele added, “My goal is to ensure we position our customers to take full advantage of new technologies and system architectures to maximize training effectiveness.” Indeed, he plans to continue expanding Christie’s Simulation University event with the objective of informing and learning “from our customers and thinking about how we might reset our expectations of what’s possible.” DiSTI’s Ariotti has his sights set on the present as well as the future vitality of the community – by becoming a mentor for new community accessions. “There are many people in this industry that have played a critical role in who and where I am today. Some of them probably don’t even know that they played an influential role,” he recalled. He added that he is “making an effort to be cognizant of the folks just starting out in this industry and those still in high school and college, and how I can help guide them as they move forward in their careers.” Ariotti also attributes the guiding hand of one of his mentors to his involvement in the program side of I/ITSEC – beyond his presence on the conference floor as an exhibitor. “I have found my involvement with the papers and sessions extremely rewarding work. In the coming years, I would like to expand my involvement with the committee.” For their part, our professionals are also involved with cutting edge programs to advance S&T in their respective spaces. In the visual systems arena, training for night operations with night vision goggles (NVG) continues to be an area with opportunities for improved training, Kanahele pointed out.“New display, IG and database designs that allow for use of operational NVGs are now starting to be fully exploited.” And to train more efficiently, Kanahele also sees opportunities to leverage increased system scalability. “Depending on the training requirements, we might use a common system architecture that readily scales across a wide range of training devices and locations.”
In this same space, projectiondesign’s Aagaard has been busy educating and informing the military and adjacent sectors about her company’s two recent projector developments. “My goal is to help make projectiondesign the preferred supplier of high performance projectors for not only new installations, but also the upgrade market,” she told MS&T. Accordingly, her weekly schedule may include attendance at trade shows and conferences, and visiting various installations where projectiondesign’s products are used. As this issue was being published, Aagaard was supporting the release of “the world’s highest resolution FL35 wqxga, a 2nd Generation LED light source projector that meets head-on the important industry requirements for high resolution, low maintenance, stable light output and stability consistency of color coordinates across multiple channels.”Aagaard has seen and experienced this technology first hand in a cross-over application – in civil aviation at British Airways’ flight training center. Most recently MS&T encountered Aagaard at ITEC 2012, where her company unveiled the FS33 IR LED-illuminated projector stimulating NVGs. The military-industry team also remains interested in gamebased S&T providing rich, immersive experiences – but recognizes that more research is needed to better define the best practices for this technology’s use by military learners. To help close this gap, McNamara supports three major research programs.
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