A Major Step Towards the Military Metaverse
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim – a BAE Systems company), and blackshark.ai announced a partnership on 25 April, aimed at delivering unprecedented realism in whole-Earth terrain generation, by combining BISim’s Mantle ETM with blackshark’s SYNTH3D geospatial solution. “SYNTH3D paired with Mantle ETM’s support for multiple runtime engines will enable customers to leverage simulation like never before,” commented BISim CPO, Pete Morrison.
The collaboration will enable customers to acquire highly accurate recreations of real-world locations for mission planning, rehearsal or training, based on little more than high-resolution satellite data. This aligns with NATO’s direction and global partners’ goals to accelerate defence training and simulation and improve multi-domain capabilities. BISim’s flagship product, VBS4, will be fully supported, in addition to other Mantle ETM supported runtimes, including Unreal. “With this partnership, any real-world location becomes available as a current and photorealistic 3D training environment. blackshark.ai and BISim are the perfect combinations for everyone looking for country-scale real-world mission planning and mission rehearsal environments,” stated Michael Putz, blackshark.ai CEO.
Mantle ETM is a custom-built platform, based on proven COTS components and expert design/development services, for creating simulated terrain for training, mission rehearsal, visualisation and terrain analysis. A Mantle ETM installation delivers a cloud-capable custom terrain pipeline that works with user’s data, processes, servers, and runtimes, integrating with existing terrain capabilities or delivering a full end-to-end solution from scratch. SYNTH3D is blackshark.ai’s 3D Base Globe, derived from the high-resolution and current Maxar Vivid basemap. Its proprietary format allows storing and using the surface of the entire globe offline and using it as a multi-domain, massive multiplayer-ready synthetic training and simulation environment.
