Dismounted Trainer and the TNO Mission Simulation Centre
The dismounted trainer technology of Re-lion allows people to be fully immersed in a virtual environment. For the Dutch research institute TNO this technology is linked with a simulation environment of the Mission Simulation Centre.
A scenario takes place in a virtual copy of the military training village Marnehuizen¹. A medical assistant is part of a convoy, which is taken under fire when arriving on the village square. The front truck tumbles over after the explosion of a IED.
The goal of the scenario: quantify how the subject handles stress when desorientated. Does the medical assistant remember the procedures when faced with several stress factors?
Other stress factors are a hot climate room, which simulates the long travel the subject has to endure, the first virtual patient the subject meets is seriously injured and irrecoverable. 
In this project there is an interesting mix of simulation in the real world and a full virtual simulation. The heat of the climate room is real, just like all the operations on the patient-simulator; making a diagnosis on the basis of the pupils, heart beat, blood pressure and giving injections.
All the rest of the simulation is virtual. The training environment, the low flying F16’s, the convoy.
Moven enables the subjects to walk around freely in the virtual environment. As the subjects wear an HMD (head mounted display), they can see each others movements and can interact with each other. The simulation is very life like and believable, which contributes toward the goal of the training.
Re-lion integrated Moven in the dismounted trainer by using the Moven SDK. The Moven SDK gives real-time data access for integration in your own software application.
¹ Marnehuizen is the largest military practice setting in Europe. American and European military prepare their missions here. This ‘practice’ village counts a 130 houses and a real infrastructure like an ordinary dutch village and is located in a nature reserve in the north of the Netherlands. There are new fake designed ruins and the style of the architecture reminds of the many newly build domestic areas in the Netherlands. The names of the streets in Marnehuizen refer to the bombed streets in the centre of Rotterdam (WOII).
