VIDEO ARCADE LEVEL TRAINING DEVICES

AS THE DEVELOPER OF THE FIRST SPACE FLIGHT SIMULATION GAME, "SPACE SHUTTLE - A JOURNEY INTO SPACE" WHICH WAS DESIGNED WITH THE SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF NASA, AND AS AN ONGOING CONTRACTOR TO DOD PRIME CONTRACTORS FOR DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS,WOODSIDE DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC. (WDA) IS IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO PROVIDE A COMPLEX COMBINATION OF ELECTRONIC, TACTICAL AND GAMING EXPERTISE. PHASE I OF THIS SBIR WILL PROVIDE FOR THE FLOW CHARTING AND DETAILED, PLOTTING OF THE TRAINING DEVICE. THE TECHNOLOGIES CAPABLE OF INCORPORATION INTO THE DEVICE ARE VOICE, MOUSE, JOYSTICK AND TOUCH PANEL INPUT, REALISTICALLY BASED COMPUTER GENERATED GRAPHICSAND A NETWORKING STRUCTURE WHICH WILL ALLOW NOT ONLY MULTIPLE PARTICIPANTS (UP TO 512 TERMINALS WHILE MAINTAINING REAL-TIME INTEGRITY) BUT PARTICIPANTS WORKING IN A VARIETY OF LOCATIONS. PHASE II WILL PROVIDE FOR THE ACTUAL PROTOTYPING OF THE ASSEMBLED DEVICE AND, AS THESE TECHNOLOGIES ARE ALREADY IN RESIDENCE AND AVAILABLE AT WDA, PHASE I WILL INCLUDE A DEMONSTRATION OF EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS. SINCE WDA IS LONG FAMILIAR WITH THE COST CONSTRAINTS OF THE HIGH VOLUME CONSUMER MARKET, THIS DEVICE IS SEEN AS BEING WELL WITHIN THE $10,000 STATED COST RANGE.