SimTect09

Virtual Sailing, the Australian Maritime College and the University of Melbourne presented two papers to this year's SimTect 2009 Simulation Conference.  The papers detailed research and development and the ever expanding uses of Virtual Sailing simulators.  The conference details can be viewed at http://www.siaa.asn.au/simtect/2009/2009.htm .

I presented both of the papers to this leading international conference in June in Adelaide.  The conference deals with all aspects of simulation from the human factors involved with maximising the benefits of simulation training to the possible hardware and software elements.  It is certainly a very interesting conference to attend and it was extremely important to learn that the VS-Trainer approach to simulation is up to date with the latest thinking on the role of passive versus active learning and on the degree of user immersion and usefulness of simulation in a training environment.  The price of the VS-Trainer also stands out as the least expensive fully fuctional trainer available.  Our copies of the two papers presented have been uploaded below