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Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VR REHAB INC
- Proposal award date
- 2022-08-09
- Contract end date
- 2025-08-08
- UEI
- PW6TQ7M8WH66
- Solicitation number
- 20.2
- Topic code
- N202-090
Research abstract
VRR’s existing successful TRL 6 level HoloWarrior:SAIPAN (formerly Fused Augmented Realities – User Interface (FAR-UI)) has been successfully evolved to fulfill the scientific and technical foundational basis, proof of concept, & feasibility for the single amphibious integrated precision augmented-reality navigation system (SAIPAN) requirements. HoloWarrior:SAIPAN (HS) vision is to provide large-scale, wide-ranging Situational Awareness Enhancements for faster (3X to 4x faster) better (up to 99.4% accuracy) decision making by virtual of VRR’s Mixed Reality (MR) visualization innovations of MiniMaps with Gaze Guidance Lines. Under ONR/USMC sponsorship VRR MR visualization innovations have been independently scientifically qualified by CSU along with PAO approved publications in four peer reviewed journals in the military context of JFOs/JTACs. HS additional MR visualization innovations include but are limited to: Instant SA which solves long standing AR graphic problems when the observer and area of interest are on the same flat plane (overlapping, confusing, clutter, etc.); Sea/Land Mine 3D Conformal Threat Zones based upon pragmatic extensions of Army Risk Estimate Distances (REDs) with different circles for training, typical use, and danger close uses; new classes of ‘pulsed graphics’ that exploit limitations in human visual perception to mitigated MR geo-registration error driven negative visual artifacts (e.g., drift & jitter); and enabling 360 degree bird’s eye view of ownship along with automated predictive visual warning based upon physics to avoid straying out of the safe lanes. HS complete systems have already been successfully developed into two researcher or early adopter products. -- VRR’s HS dual tablet versions enables being add-on to existing vehicles and enable the boat operator/vehicle driver and his/her associated commander to safely, effectively, and efficiently operate the boat/vehicle; -- VRR’s MR/AR-HMD versions are wearable providing 360-degree SAIPAN visualizations and potentially avoiding the policy risks of being classified as ship equipment requiring certifications. Key benefits derive from VRR’s already supporting the IVAS $22B 10year POR, which can provide the ruggedized with IR sensing built-in MR-HMDs for SAIPAN. Additionally, VRR’s HoloWarrior:SAIPAN versions are already networked with ATAK/Nett Warrior supporting future network linking to COBRA, MINENet Tactical and JABS to fulfill the USN/USMC vision for the Navy’s Amphibious Breaching System (ABS) by providing a modern state of the art version of the prior unsuccessful Augmented Reality Visualization for the Common Operating Picture (ARVCOP). Another out-of-scope benefit at no cost to this MARSYSCOM project is warfighters using HoloWarrior can also exploit our ATAK/Nett Warrior integration to Call For Fire (ONR/USMC sponsored), Control Drones &/or Swarms (Army sponsored), our 4D visualize of CBRNE threats (DTRA sponsored), plus other use cases.
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Research funding history
20 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2016–2024). Reported award amounts total $9,592,233. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense
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Department of Defense
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