virtual reality and aeronautical navigation

Virtual Reality is being used extensively for aircraft directional assistance. The most well-known uses are VR systems for pilots that superimpose images of maps, navigational graphics, or targeting information on the sky, other aircraft or the ground from a head-mounted VR display. While air traffic controllers deal constantly with 3D situations, VR uses to air traffic control systems are not yet common. Also in the aerospace field, but not navigation per se, Virtual Reality is used extensively for aircraft instruction. Unigine also may interest you.

Movement and contact are very important for communication from people to computing systems. It takes place through keyboard strokes, mouse movements, gesture-sensing gloves, and other motion-tracking methods. Movement and contact are also important for interaction from the setting to human beings in the physical world. Nonetheless, this is far less prevalent in virtual reality due to the limitations of current applied science. Mechanical devices to track human movement can react to movement promptly and accurately, but are often bulky and limit macro-scale motion. Other machines track motion by the interaction of moving objects with magnetic fields, but these can be inaccurate as well as slow. Other devices use ultrasound to track the location and motion by one's body. Linked page Virtual Tours Henderson, Nevada also discusses these concepts.

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