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I/ITSEC 2018: Improbable ‘supporting’ US Army’s STE efforts

3rd December 2018 - 12:00 GMT | by Richard Thomas in Orlando

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With simulated environments long-since utilised by military forces around the world for training purposes industry is looking to take the sector to the next milestone; the introduction of synthetic environments at a much larger scale.

UK company Improbable, present for the first time at I/ITSEC in Orlando, showcased its SpatialOS synthetic training environment (STE), which is a cloud-based distributed computational platform.

The software combines a number of different servers and game engines more commonly associated with the gaming and entertainment world, such as Unity and Unreal. According to the company this allows operators to have greater number of entities –

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