I'm so pleased ... it's fabulous knowing that it's still doing what we intended it to do! I'm back on Dartmoor regularly, most recently with my drone and 360 camera. It's so barren up there, but such a great place to chill! Take care!

Which SubSafe project is that? Our developments were, sadly, taken no further after we had completed this phase of the work, undertaken the experiments and published (that all went very well). Typical MoD!

@@ProfBobStone-XR I see, thank you very much for the reply!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for those kind comments!

@@ProfBobStone-XR I hope XR industry take your experience and lessons as base to create applications. There's so much bad VR apps nowaday that it seems VR is a boring technology.

It has indeed, and wonderful to see! The original 3D scan results are here: my.matterport.com/show/?m=tHDRwQf2Vgf . It's going to be great to see it all cleaned up and reassembled!

Yes please! Always up for more 3D scanning suggestions in the area. Thank you!

Hi Preston ... it's dormant, I'm afraid. The XR and medical research has actually moved on to focus on the training of defence paramedics. The original research was sponsored by the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, as, at the time, they asked us to look at VR for rehabilitation of casualties returning from the Middle East. When those casualties stopped coming through (tgank goodness), rather than cancel the work, they allowed us to continue in the civilian sector. Hence, our long-standing relationship with them. There are a couple of PhD theses by my supervised students you may be interested in. If you send me your email address (to [email protected]), I could send them to you if you like.

Absolutely! I have raised its existence with the National Railway Museum in York.

We really enjoyed this exercise Malcolm! Did you pay for the recent 3D mapping of part of the Museum by the way? We have done so many examples using that tech in Cornwall and Devon recently (and further abroad) ... all for free!

@@ProfBobStone-XR Sorry Bob I don't know

@@malcolmgould7514 not to worry ... if you need anything like this done in the future, just holler!

@@ProfBobStone-XR Thanks

Yes indeed ... a very sorry sight indeed, inside and out. No idea what's going to happen to it, but at least we captured as much as we could, using the drone, Matterport 3D scanning camera and a Ricoh 360 camera system.

@@ProfBobStone-XR Thanks Mate, one can only hope,I always feel sad when this sort of things happen,About 20k from where I live a Bloke has 20 or so WW2 Vehicles Rusting away in the Bush ,Universal Carriers, GMC Trucks etc.

My pleasure!!

It's not a game. It's a VR reconstruction of an historical building in our town of Droitwich Spa. We developed the scenario free of charge to support a local organisation that is bidding to reconstruct the remains of the building. Its history goes back many centuries, and we're hoping to get a little bit of funding to develop VR scenes based on key points in history. Also hoping to involve local schools. It may well end up being a form of educational game!

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Indeed ... it's an incredible story though. Packed full of conspiracy theories!! I wonder if it'll ever be found?

@@ProfBobStone-XR the French Navy has found the submarine "Minerve" which sank more than 50 years ago. but she has no budget to find the "Surcouf". if this ship is to be found it will be by a private company. In addition, the examination of the wreck will make it possible to know the cause of the sinking (collision by a merchant ship or fratricidal attack by the US naval aviation)

@@ProfBobStone-XR the French Navy has found the submarine "Minerve" which sank more than 50 years ago. but she has no budget to find the "Surcouf". if this ship is to be found it will be by a private company. In addition, the examination of the wreck will make it possible to know the cause of the sinking (collision by a merchant ship or fratricidal attack by the US naval aviation)

Maybe when the wreck is finally found, it'll shed more light on her untimely demise. R.I.P

@@PortmanRd Yes, you are right, if the cobblestones are found, there is a good chance that the truth about its sinking will be clarified. I think the wreck will be discovered But it will be by chance.

It's not, I'm afraid. The company that was developing it as part of the larger consortium went belly up ☹️. It, and the previous Interactive Trauma Trainer (which I still have), we're great ideas and well received by the potential end users, but, as usual, no funds to take either to market. A common story with this kind of tech, I'm afraid.

Thank you kind sir! Amazing to think this was 1998 to 1999!

He was certainly an interesting character. We're mentioned in his first book on VR too!

@@ProfBobStone-XR what is it that you do, exactly?

@@parthadlakha1641 I'm an Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham, running something called the Human Interface technologies, or HIT Team. My background is in Applied Psychology and Human Factors/Ergonomics and I've been involved in the VR community for over 35 years!

The "patient" is a physical mannequin (Simbodie) and is part of the Mixed Reality effect, where we use a blue-screen enclosure to display the platform interior, other avatars, billboarded videos of the external "in-flight" videos. Anything that is not blue is seen as real. We used a single pass-through camera-modified HTC Vive Pro headset. The great thing about this MR example is that there is absolutely no need for expensive, unreliable and cumbersome so-called "haptic" gloves (none of which are fit for purpose anyway). Here you see your real hands and touch/manipulate real objects.

Did you? Don't remember you! We (Virtual Presence Ltd at the time) were contracted by Alenia Marconi to develop the trainer from scratch in the late 1990s. Had to measure and photo a Tornado to get all the detail. Worked closely with the guys at Marham to program the functionality and get the triple-screen workstations in place.

@@ProfBobStone-XR I was a Chief Technician in the Royal Air Force and the senior F3 avionics instructor at the Tornado Maintenance School. I wrote the cardinal point specification for the system, and later at Marconi I lead the systems team that built the aircraft emulation to drive the 3D graphics provided by Virtual Presence. I was the last engineer on the project and did the final bug fixes on the emulation and installed it at Marham. Thanks for posting this.

@@paulmaidment1158 Interesting ... I thought we did the 3D graphics AND the avionics emulation and human interaction techniques (as we wrote a dedicated "engine" to do just that!!).

@@ProfBobStone-XR ​ Hi Bob. Andy Millns here. I worked on that project for a few years. Thanks for uploading that! Very nostalgic. Can confirm Marconi did the underlying Avionics sim. We did everything else. We actually spent some time embedded at Marconi to work more closely. One helluva project!

@@se10er It was indeed Andy - I was just discussing this project yesterday with the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Museum at Newquay. They were given two Tornadoes, including an F3. They were gobsmacked that we were "given" a fully functional aircraft at Marham to measure, photograph and play with! Great to hear from you!