Augmented-fact Diving Helmets be part of america army

The U.S. navy announced this month a "subsequent-era" and "futuristic" system: the Divers Augmented vision show (DAVD). Embedded directly interior a diving helmet, DAVD is a excessive-resolution, see-through heads-up display (HUD), which means divers can see tool readings or different facts immediately at the obvious show without having to lower their eyes.

"through building this HUD immediately inside the dive helmet in preference to attaching a display at the outdoor, it can offer a capability just like some thing from an 'Ironman' movie," Dennis Gallagher, underwater systems development mission engineer at the Naval surface warfare center Panama city division, said in a announcement. "you've got everything you visually want right there inside the helmet." [See Photos of the Augmented Reality Tech in Navy Diving Helmets]

Augmented-reality (AR) gadgets superimpose statistics on the sector we see, including how Google Glass works. The era has existed for years in a few shape or every other. as an instance, the HUDs in fighter plane as some distance returned as the '90s were able to displaying data approximately the attitude, path and pace of the planes.

For the U.S. military's purposes, their augmented-reality helmet show will provide divers real-time records, starting from diagrams to text messages. by way of having this operational facts in actual time, divers can paintings extra efficiently and live safe on their missions, consistent with military.

"as a substitute of getting to rely upon pre-dive briefings by myself to decide what they're looking for, how unique items must appear and where they will be placed, the DAVD gadget locations the statistics proper before divers' eyes with a look and feel comparable to a point-of-view online game show," the U.S. army stated in the declaration.

The device may be used for diving missions like underwater production or salvage operations, in keeping with the army, and eventually may be used by first responders and the economic diving network.

Gallagher and his group at the moment are working on additives designed for both helmet structures and full-face mask. In-water simulation testing of the equipment is scheduled for October, with phase three of the assignment — hardening the device for discipline assessments with dive instructions — set to begin in 2017.