<ul><li>UMD’s Extended Reality Flight Simulation and Control Lab is dedicated to advancing aviation safety, pilot performance, and training efficiency through cutting-edge VR/XR technologies.</li><li>The lab has secured approximately $3 million in research funding from organizations like the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, emphasizing the revolutionary changes it will bring to flight training.</li><li>Research at the UMD lab focuses on the transformative potential of immersive headset-based simulation technologies in flight training, offering advantages such as cost efficiency, reduced physical footprint, flexibility, multi-user capabilities, enhanced immersion, and improved field of view.</li><li>The lab's innovative technology highlights include high-precision headsets, haptic feedback technology, wearable physiological sensing, and Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) for a more realistic simulation experience under extreme flight conditions.</li></ul>

UMD Lab Advances VR/XR in Aviation Training

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