VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY READY FOR TAKE-OFF IN AVIATION – IATA CONFERENCE
June 1st, 2018
VIRTUAL reality (VR) systems are increasingly available and useful for the civil aviation sector – with their training benefits a key focus of an International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference. Its first ever Aviation Virtual & Augmented Reality Summit (AVARS), in Geneva, June 5 and 6, (2018), showed how shocking viewers through VR can really make a difference - the death of a virtual passenger underlined the importance of such tech in safety training. Professor Luca Chittaro of Italy’s University of Udine was presenting a virtual reality ...
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