Flight Simulator Improvement
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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NEW EYE TRACKING TECHNIQUES IMPROVE REALISM OF AIRCRAFT
SIMULATORS
A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon
be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking
technology developed by researchers at the University of
Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IMBE).
Many safety and cost benefits are obtained by training
aircraft pilots under simulated conditions, but to be effective
the simulation must be convicingly realistic. At present, th e
training facilities use large domes and gimballed projectors, or
an array of video screens, to display computer-generated images.
But these installations are very expensive and image resolution
is low. Further, it would take an enormous amount of addi...