Shipboard VR: From Damage Control to Design

Abstract

Virtual reality efforts in the Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) span mission planning, rehearsal, and execution; simulation- based design; and medicine. We devote much of our work to ship-based applications, presenting two such efforts in this article. One project focuses on experiments in shipboard firefighting to verify the effectiveness of VR as a mission planning tool. The other project involves visualizing a preliminary design of a new Navy ship. Since that work did not extend into the actual design cycle, we can't quantify the results in terms of hours gained or costs saved. However, the design team and the program managers agreed that the VR visualization was worthwhile and provided a better understanding of the design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA606501

Entities

People

  • Daniel Fasulo
  • David F Tate
  • Greg Newton
  • James Templeman
  • Jim Durbin
  • Jyoti Agarwal
  • Lawrence Rosenblum
  • Linda Sibert
  • Thomas Meyer
  • Upul Obeysekare

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Computer Graphics
  • Environment
  • Fire Fighting
  • Firefighters
  • Fires
  • Graphics
  • High Temperature
  • Military Research
  • Natural Languages
  • Navigation
  • Navy
  • Shipboard
  • Ships
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.