Fused Reality is a novel technique conceived at STI that is similar to the blue-screening technique that Hollywood is using (employed initially by Hitchcock in Vertigo). The critical differences are: 1) Hollywood requires carefully controlled lighting conditions, and 2) the computer processing is done off-line - Fused Reality on the other hand, can operate over a wide range of lighting conditions, and the processing is executed in real-time thus enabling real-time fusing of the virtual and physical environments. STI is currently applying for a patent on the Fused Reality technique and its coined term.

...to provide a quantum jump in training realism and capability.

Video from the trainee's perspective is sent to a processor that preserves near-space (cabin environment) pixels and makes transparent the far-space (out-the-cabin) pixels using blue screen imaging techniques. This bitmap is overlaid on a virtual environment, and sent to the trainee's helmet mounted display. Thus the user directly views the physical cabin environment, while the simulated outside world serves as a backdrop.

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