Holotrac
LARGE SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Holotrac is a fully immersive beyond the state-of-art Virtual Reality large scale modular system that provides faithful representation of a variety of situations addressing the needs of civilian (higher education, scientific research, industry, maritime) and non-civilian (law enforcement, military, security and close protection) sectors.
No boundaries
Holotrac is the finest virtual reality (VR) immersive tool available for accessing any virtual environment. The platform gives user the illusion that is surrounded by a fictional world, offering a fully interactive representation. It adds a completely new dimension to training and scientific research as well as entertainment.
In contrary to devices such as Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) that suffer from limited field of view and user isolation, Holotrac is built multi user by design: it allows 5-6 people in the same time to collaborate, and it also provides a 90°, 180° or 300° field of view (depending on version), which makes them to be physically into the virtual environment without need of specialized equipment.
The system consists of a one, three or five-wall room with simultaneous full-HD projection in every wall, totalling to a whooping 8000 x 1200 resolution ―and that’s a 9.6 Mpixels real time graphics― in contrary to competitor systems that ran on “standard” video resolutions spread over numerous square meters of screen real estate.
1, 3 or 5 screen configurations
Not all requirements are the same, and not all problems require the same approach. That’s why we build Holotrac with 1 to 5 projected screens offering 90° to 300° field of view to the user with many possible geometries like straight, cube or hexagon depending on the application.
Modular design
When “bells and whistles” just add to the cost and not to the outcome, Holotrac offers a highly customizable solution. Using a “building blocks” concept, it integrates just the right technology to every single installation and it keeps client’s cost low by omitting the unneeded parts.
Easy installation
Holotrac is built with installation ease in mind. It’s shipped stacked and can be fully assembled and calibrated in just one working day, making it the first portable full-scale VR environment. It can also be easily stored when not in use with minimal footprint.
Seamless imaging
Even on five walls, we deliver just one image: continuous and crisp, with color accuracy and consistency, because of our tedious calibration procedures and image blending software we use ―and also deliver to our customers with every system in order to perform exactly like day one.
Upgradable projection
Projection options are unlimited and instead of our standard projector series, we can install a variety of projectors that cover client’s specific needs. Our engineering department calculates all the needed parameters and designs a tailor-made solution to fulfill any request.
Build quality
Every material is carefully selected and every detail is calculated and documented. Holotrac’s frame is built from aluminium truss, highly durable but also lightweight, and it’s delivered with structural analysis certificate to ensure client’s peace of mind. Furthermore, its scenes are made from one of Europe’s most prestigious cinema screen manufacturers, bearing top image quality, and are micro perforated for audio transparency.
Non-civilian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
(available now)
Civilian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
(coming soon)
FireMeister Team
(available now)
Industry Edition
(coming soon)
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Defence Edition
(available now)
Law Enforcement Edition
(available now)
Security Edition
(available now)
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
(coming soon)
FireMeister Team
(available now)
Industry Edition
(coming soon)
Interact like in real life
In virtual environments tracking quality is fundamental. Participants and objects need to be tracked in order to interact with the synthetic word, but till now with modest outcome, keeping interactive VR applications trapped in certain less demanding areas.
Holotrac breaks this tradition by incorporating the world’s best large scale 3d tracking solution. Developed by Realiscape using technology from world-leading providers, Holotrac’s system can achieve a tracking accuracy of up to 0.5 mm per axis allowing it to be used in new, never assigned before tasks like shooting simulations.
Accuracy per axis (mm)
Position Calculations (per second)
Position Verfications (per second)
Heart of the system is a series of specialized autonomous laser tracking devices that are both small enough and lightweight so they can be fitted on a variety of objects like guns, clothes or fire extinguishers but also with exceptional data processing abilities so they can perform all the complex calculations needed to calculate their 6 DoF coordinates in real time.
Non-civlillian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civlillian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
No video sequences, no script, no limits!
Based entirely on interactive 3D-CGI (three dimensional computer generated imagery), Holotrac is the big step forward in terms of technology. Massive, complex simulated scenarios can be run no matter the use: from close quarters combat to industrial fire fighting, the outcome is faithful to reality.
Holotrac provides such a level of content customization never possible with traditional video-based systems; with the ability of creation of custom characters, objects and animations, Holotrac can be easily adapted upon order to the specific client’s need: buildings, cars, vessels, objects, sceneries and terrain can be designed and developed, and country-specific or branding elements can be simulated in close cooperation with the client.
Presented entirely in the virtual world, the quality of simulation is scientifically accurate, but also dynamic, immersive, and highly realistic: Using true physics, and our custom developed code, the system calculates everything a scenario needs: from bullet trajectories to fluid mechanics and from fire propagation to complex ship movement.
Not a usual simulation environment...
Interactive
Trainee’s interaction with the entire environment is standard, with no additional programming required by the instructor. Every object is subject to the laws of physics and may be used or destroyed during the scenario, even if it is not included in the exercise script.
Dynamic
Another interesting feature of Holotrac is the dynamic environmental conditions created by the instructor. Lighting not only varies with the time of day, but also plays an active role in the outcome of the exercise, creating new training opportunities. Similarly, varying weather conditions can accumulate experience to the trainees in a way unable to reach before.
Unified
For training, Holotrac’s simulation quality eliminates the need for different visualization tools (CGI for static exercises and video for dynamic scenarios) homogenizing content creation and optimizing workflows irrespective of use.
Upgradable
Fixed resolution video has troubled immersive training for years. Because it was unable to adapt to new display technologies, any investment made for video content in formats that later became obsolete, rapidly evaporated. Following advances in real-time computer graphics, Holotrac can natively display its material in any current or future resolution without any alteration in content. And that’s an investment to grow with.
Non-civillian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
(available now)
Law Enforcement Edition
(available now)
Security Edition
(available now)
Civillian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
(coming soon)
FireMeister Team
(available now)
Industry Edition
(coming soon)
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Defence Edition
(available now)
Law Enforcement Edition
(available now)
Security Edition
(available now)
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
(coming soon)
FireMeister Team
(available now)
Industry Edition
(coming soon)
Listen like never before
Although much attention has been given to the graphics quality, sound is often underestimated at a virtual reality implementation. And this is totally wrong since audio is the most important component of believable immersion that relies heavily on how audio is propagated within the scene. Audio cues must occur in the right direction and plane, with the right intensity and need to be rendered in real-time to match head movements.
What is Ambisonics?
Ambisonics is a method of codifying a sound field taking into account its directional properties. In traditional multichannel audio (e.g., stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 surround) each channel has the signal corresponding to a given loudspeaker. Instead, in Ambisonics each channel has information about certain physical properties of the acoustic field, such as the pressure or the acoustic velocity.
Daniel Artega, "Introduction to Ambisonics", Dolby Laboratories, 2018
Holotrac is the first large scale virtual environment in the world that incorporates Ambisonics spatial audio. This is the most sophisticated technique that can provide virtual reality users with an immersive 360 degrees surround audio experience. Its signals are scene-based audio elements that describe not individual sources, but rather the sound field as a whole from one point in space. This means that the soundfield is located every time in the “right” place regarding the head of the listener. It employs proprietary Ambisonic coding / decoding technology integrated within the virtual environment which can be scaled to the desired audio set-up upon application.
The accuracy of listener localization of audio object rendered for any loudspeaker or headphone-based Holotrac installation, has been scientifically calculated and tested within lab environment which recreates the specific loudspeaker number and arrangement.
Developed especially for Realiscape from one of the most renown sound research groups, Holotrac’s Ambisonics implementation provides institutions and trainees a giant leap forward in terms of task comprehension in complex multi-stimulus scenarios. Furthermore it ensures training quality under audio saturated environments where trainee disorientation and misjudgement can become fatal.
In contrary to the “traditional” 6.1 or even 7.1 surround sound setups, Ambisonics encodes the whole spherical soundfield. And this means great fidelity and training outcome where it matters more: in situations where decisions are made based on sounds, audio fidelity is preferred by far over graphics quality.
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Non-civlillian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civlillian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Different training, same skills
No people are same. They have different tastes, background and learning paths. Until now, scenario-based training has handled all people the same: by rigid, predefined, prescribed activities with more or less the same branching, depending on the instructor’s ability to make “wise” decisions himself.
As the number and complexity of options increases exponentially as a scenario unfolds, it’s human impossible for a content designer to implement all possible pathways. This leads to a swallow narrative most of the times, limiting any educational profits and obligating trainees to receive the same “knowledge package” regardless of their profile, thus rendering any of the benefits of scenario-based training mostly unusable.
Holotrac solves this challenge by implementing AI in the exercises, aiding educators by generating dynamic responses within a scenario. Instead of following a pre-planned script, it takes more factors into account, creating a more realistic environment. The conditions in the scenario, for example, could change if a learner takes too long to respond, or an “opponent” becomes more strategic after a course.
Why so fuss about AI?
There’s no doubt that Artificial Intelligence is an integral part of our daily lives; we can find it everywhere even if we don’t know it. This technology is influencing consumer products and has led to significant breakthroughs in healthcare and physics as well as altered industries as diverse as manufacturing, finance and retail.
As time flows, Artificial Intelligence will play an increasing role in many more sectors including training and education as machine learning allows a machine to be more “abstract”, where instead of being programmed what to think, machines can observe, analyze and learn from data and mistakes just like our human brains can.
Realiscape is investing in incorporating Artificial Intelligence as an integral part of its product line, allowing a more productive training with no prescript exercises but with the same educational experience.
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Non-civlillian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civlillian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Not "What", but "How"
Traditional training examinations can only verify the successful completion of a course, but they can never examine the trainee’s cognitive processes, being able to present only quantitative but not qualitative results. After Action Reviews provide an opportunity to assess what happened and why. They are learning-focused discussions that are designed to help the trainer and the student discover what to do differently in the present or future courses.
After Action Review is an integral part of the Holotrac platform. No matter the training subject, one of the most sophisticated AAR systems are on the trainer’s hand.
In close cooperation with the system’s AAR component, an especially developed app runs on the trainer’s tablet presenting a series of critical information:
First person view angle
Added to the “standard” tracking of the training space for further discussion with the trainee during debriefing, a unique feature of Holotrac is the real time monitoring of the trainee’s view, thus allowing the instructor for better evaluation of his performance.
Combined training timeline
As an integrated system, Holotrac allows all of its events to be logged simultaneously in an interactive time bar depicturing all the events together with all the trainee's actions and response times, making the evaluation scientifically accurate.
Somatometric data
Anxiety and vital body signs, can be measured in real time with Holotrac's embedded capturing device. Using wireless communication, somatometric acquisition is fully implemented and supported by the system, giving the instructor precious information about the trainee's condition in order to achieve maximum educational results.
Six versions to choose
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Non - Civlillian applications
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civilian applications
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
Non-civlillian applications
Six versions to choose
Military Edition
Law Enforcement Edition
Security Edition
Civlillian applications
The Holotrac platform is the common ground of six independent editions that cover a series of specialized applications.
Sports Shooting Edition
Fire Fighting Edition
Industry Edition
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