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Latest NewsSeptember 2008VT MÄK AND DI-Guy Announce DI-Guy Software Integration Into MÄK Stealth And VR-Forces DI-Guy Brings Enhanced Human Characters to MÄK’s Simulation and Visualization Products Cambridge, Mass., September 12, 2008 — Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited’s (ST Electronics) US subsidiary, VT MÄK, (MÄK) and DI-Guy, a company of Boston Dynamics, today announced the integration of the DI-Guy product into MÄK Stealth and VR-Forces. Under a partnership agreement, MÄK has licensed DI-Guy for use in MÄK’s simulation and visualization products. This new DI-Guy functionality, distributed exclusively by MÄK, is available immediately at no additional charge. With these new features, users can bring their simulations to life by populating their scenarios with more realistic human characters. Using the VR-Forces graphical user interface (GUI), users can select specific characters to add to their scenario from DI-Guy’s library of models. They can assign these characters animations from hundreds of motions that model human behavior, like walking or swimming. These motions are derived from live motion capture for a realistic effect. The DI-Guy characters and actions can be displayed in 3D in the MÄK Stealth and VR-Forces 3D GUI. DI-Guy is the leading commercial-off-the-shelf software used for adding remarkable, life-like humans to real-time simulation. DI-Guy features hundreds of life-like characters that perform thousands of activities. The characters available include soldiers, civilians, flight deck crew, policemen, emergency responders, opposing forces, suspects, cyclists, people in wheelchairs and even horses. VR-Forces is MÄK’s software toolkit for generating and executing battlefield scenarios. It can be used as a tactical leadership trainer, threat generator, behavior model testbed, or computer generated forces application. The VR-Forces 3D GUI allows users to drag and drop models directly within the 3D scene to interactively create, place and task entities. Entities can be rotated and moved into position behind doors, on the stairs between floors, under a bridge overpass, anywhere in the 3D scene. VR-Forces customers include RUAG, the Thales Watchkeeper UAV program, and Raytheon’s DDG 1000 program. The MÄK Stealth provides a 3D view of the virtual battlefield. A key component of after action review, the MÄK Stealth excels at visualizing non-visual information like fire and detonation lines, trajectory histories, sensor volumes, and entity labels.
Pricing and Availability All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. DI-Guy is COTS software for adding lifelike human characters to real-time simulated environments. DI-Guy provides an integrated system with everything the user needs: hundreds of ready-to-use photo-realistic 3D human models from every walk of life, an extensive library of over 2000 behaviors, a high-performance real-time motion engine, and a comprehensive API. DI-Guy is part of an integrated product suite which features DI-Guy Scenario, an interactive 3D scenario generation tool that enables authors to create compelling human performances rapidly via a point-and-click interface and DI-Guy AI, artificial intelligence software for creating large populations of terrain-aware, decision-making agents. DI-Guy is highly customizable, runs on Windows, Linux, OpenGL, OSG, and can work on any renderer. DI-Guy is the de facto standard for human simulation in training applications worldwide and is used by the leading providers of simulation-based training solutions, such asMÄK Technologies, Raydon, Rockwell Collins, Presagis, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Honeywell, CAE, SAIC, and BAE Systems. The company also offers expert services for DI-Guy product integration, customization, content creation and application development. Please visit www.diguy.com MÄK, a company of VT Systems, develops software to link, simulate and visualize the virtual world. MÄK creates tools and toolkits for distributed simulations, develops PC-based military tactical and operational trainers, crafts custom solutions, and researches and develops the latest simulation technologies. The company builds commercial off the shelf simulation software that is flexible, portable and supported. MÄK puts its distributed simulation expertise in each of its interoperable products, from the VR-Link networking toolkit, to VR-Forces, MÄK’s computer generated forces toolkit. MÄK’s worldwide customers include ITT Industries, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Thales, Tenix, Dassault, and BAE. Please visit www.mak.com. VT Systems, and its subsidiaries are preferred providers of engineering solutions, products, integrated systems, and services in the Americas across the core business areas of marine, aerospace, electronics and land systems. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, VT Systems operates throughout North America and offers a broad range of proven innovative services to both the commercial and government sectors. VT Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. Please visit www.vt-systems.com. ST Electronics, the electronics arm of ST Engineering, delivers innovative system solutions to government, commercial, defence, and industrial customers worldwide. With presence in more than 18 countries and 28 cities, ST Electronics markets its solutions to more than 70 countries internationally. It specialises in the design, development and integration of advanced electronics and communications systems, such as broadband radio frequency and satellite communication, e-Government solutions, information communications technologies and IT, rail and traffic management, real-time command & control, training and simulation, interactive digital media, intelligent building management and information security. Please visit www.stee.stengg.com. Media contact:Magdalen Loh Michelene K. St. Amand
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DI-Guy is delighted to be chosen by MÄK to be their solution for human character visualization and simulation across the MÄK product line, including VR-Forces and MÄK Stealth. We’re sure that their customers will appreciate the lifelike motions, wide range of realistic appearances, and ease-of-use of the DI-Guy characters. DI-Guy and MÄK have enjoyed a long history of working together because of our complementary product lines and we’re excited to see that relationship broadened further with this agreement.
Bill BLANK
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