When it comes to surviving a
firefight information is everything. That’s exactly why the United States
military invests so much time and resources into equipping soldiers with
state-of-the-art technology designed to keep them informed and updated when deployed
in dangerous scenarios. The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering
Command’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering
Center is taking a full step into the future by fitting soldiers with advanced
augmented reality heads-up displays. The US Army has been using AR in combat
for years in the form of simple, monochromatic displays fielded by select
individuals.
Tactical Augmented Reality, or
TAR, takes the idea much further by providing high quality HD displays
miniaturized to the size of a small eyepiece and capable of communicating large
amounts of critical data in real-time. The TAR system can effectively provide a
soldier with advanced night vision, topographical information and shared vision
between squad members. The futuristic display is also capable of providing the
GPS locations of both friend and foe using automatic geo-registration to
constantly update the geodetically-calibrated reference image needed for
functional tracking with geo-positional satellites.
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