VR Ship Simulator

In 2014 I started a company with 2 guys from Norway who I’d never met in person. (Ask me if that was a good idea… 🤦‍♂️) We set out to build VR projects for the Maritime industry. I was the only engineer on our little team of 3 people and built a couple of really cool systems.

First and foremost a modular ship-simulator that

• worked in VR as well as across 8 big screens

• supported multiple players (on different vessels or different positions on the same vessel)

• could be driven from an actual captain’s chair

• worked standalone but could also connect to the actual control system of a ship

  • could stream the actual screens of the control system onto the virtual screens in VR

• had support for dynamic weather and time of day

• included countless nice little bits and pieces like working marine lamps, dynamically controllable window wipers, etc., etc.

• had an iPad app for the instructor to change the parameters of the training

With VR being very new there were countless interesting challenges to figure out… I might do a more detailed writeup at some point - watch this space…