VR Ship Simulator
date
Aug 6, 2023
type
Project
year
2015
slug
vr-ship-simulator
status
Published
tags
Virtual Reality
Project
summary
Virtual Reality training for the maritime industry
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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…
