Norfolk Naval Shipyard tests Virtual Reality training

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US’ Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) has collaborated with military shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) to create laser scans of vessels and develop virtual training simulations for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) workforce.

Taking 90 to 100 individual scans of the warship USS John C. Stennis to build a virtual replica of the ship, the US navy can then perform ship checks onboard.

These scans are sewn together to develop an accurate (to an eighth of an inch depending on the...

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