virtual reality and aeronautical navigation

Virtual Reality is being used extensively for aircraft directional assistance. The most well-known applications are VR systems for pilots that superimpose images of maps, navigational graphics, or targeting information on the sky, other aircraft or the ground from a head-mounted VR display. While air traffic controllers deal constantly with three-dimensional situations, VR uses to air traffic control systems are not yet common. Also in the aerospace sector, but not directional assistance per se, virtual reality is used extensively for aircraft training. Link to Virtual Environments provides more developments.

To be engaging, the computer-created setting must respond to one's action with enough speed and accuracy to offer a person involved the sense of engaging a real setting. With respect to speed, "response lag" is the lag in computer reaction to our motion. Latency erodes the sensation of realism. Advances in computer operating power are shrinking latency to make possible better and cheaper virtual reality applications. Further, Virtual Tours Modesto, California provides information about these issues.

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