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The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions, announces that Saab, a leading manufacturer of innovative airborne systems has selected VE Studio to build a best-in-class virtual maintenance trainer (VMT) for the company’s Gripen E aircraft.

This selection is the result of a multi-year evaluation process where Saab reviewed numerous technology platforms and development methodologies. Saab selected VE Studio on the basis that it will enable them to create and manage immersive virtual training faster than other methods while significantly reducing their development costs.

Mission demands and enemy threats are rapidly evolving, and the Gripen E is designed to keep pace by addressing those needs with the most advanced technological features and upgradability while reducing the customer’s cost of ownership as the airframe is adapted over time. Similarly, Markus Jellinek, Technical Project Manager of Saab explains, “We selected VE Studio for its ability to enable our team to quickly create and make changes to the training material without having to redevelop the software’s codebase or having to expand our existing team. These elements, combined with DiSTI’s flexible licensing model allows us to scale up or down as our program requires, will save us significant delivery time, give us the flexibility to adapt to customer demands, add new features such as virtual and augmented reality, and control our costs even further.”

VE Studio is a commercially available virtual training development platform that uses a proven database-driven approach combined with end-to-end automated tools to simplify and speed the creation of virtual training solutions based on the Unity rendering engine. Leveraging VE Studio, the Gripen E project management team will be able to train their existing staff, many of whom are not software developers, to use the platform for creating the aircraft’s VMT. This provides them complete control of the training content throughout the aircraft’s lifecycle allowing them to rapidly adapt to engineering, equipment, and procedural changes that take place during the initial deployment, through flight trials, into final customer delivery, and beyond.

John Cunningham, DiSTI’s Chief Revenue Officer highlights, “Saab is a long-time customer and currently uses our GL Studio HMI tool for developing virtual instrumentation in simulators. We are pleased that they have also selected VE Studio to develop the new Gripen E virtual maintenance trainer. Saab can now take advantage of that technology and processes to develop their own virtual maintenance training content at a fraction of the time and cost using traditional manual development processes.” Over the past 15 years DiSTI has developed virtual training solutions for leading Aerospace and Defense organizations and through that experience has developed processes and technologies that have been incorporated into VE Studio, a commercial-off-the-shelf virtual training development platform for desktop, mobile, AR and VR applications.

To learn more about virtual maintenance training solutions or our VE Studio development platform, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions and graphical user interface software, has been awarded a contract N61340-18-D-5007 for the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division’s (NAWCTSD) Training Systems Contract IV (TSC IV) Multiple Award Contract (MAC). The TSC IV MAC, inclusive of all awarded contracts and ordering periods, has a not-to-exceed value of $980,000,000. All delivery orders will be placed pursuant to the procedures at FAR 16.5.

DiSTI was one of 10 small business award winners among the 23 award recipients – significant as it allows these companies to compete on a level playing field among the largest industry defense contractors for services on the contract to provide training device and training systems design, development, production, test and evaluation, delivery, modification, and support. TSC IV’s evaluation included vendor delivery capabilities for virtual and augmented reality technology, opening the door for more SMB contractors that have been driving innovation and leadership in this area.

“Being included on the award validates DiSTI’s well-rounded capabilities to deliver high-quality training programs to the U.S. Navy. I believe we stood out in two ways. First, DiSTI has superior technology in the area of virtual maintenance training; and secondly, our past performance on other government contracts proves we are capable of succeeding. Those two elements combined are really what the Navy was looking for,” said Joe Swinski, President of DiSTI.

DiSTI’s VP of Services, Steve Jackson adds, “Over the past 15 years, DiSTI has consistently delivered operator and maintainer training solutions to the U.S. military and commercial customers. We have the expertise, processes, and technology leadership with developmental tools like VE Studio and GL Studio to deliver cutting-edge training solutions, quickly and economically.”

TSC IV’s objective is to establish a long-term competitively awarded contract vehicle to support NAWC TSD’s acquisition of training system devices, complementary ISD products, and Training Systems Support. Contract deliverables include the development and production of new training systems, modification of existing training systems, and purchasing additional quantities of existing training systems. The pre-selection of award recipients identifies contractors that have demonstrated capability to meet Fleet requirements by shortening training program development and delivery times, delivering high-quality programs to the field, maintain a responsive customer support team, and deliver at reasonable prices.

To learn more about DiSTI’s work with the Naval Air Warfare Center, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

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The DiSTI Corporation, the leading provider of graphical user interface development software is delivering its GL Studio^® software as the user interface layer for the instrument cluster in the 2018 Hyundai Kona Electric Vehicle (EV).

The 2018 Kona EV cluster, designed and built by Hyundai MOBIS, features an advanced instrument cluster in a full digital display that allows users to experience state-of-the-art graphical features and user-defined customization. Being entirely conceived in-house, Hyundai MOBIS used GL Studio^® for the creation of the simple and intuitive instrument cluster’s User Interface, which enables the LCD display to respond to both vehicle data and driver inputs to improve the ease of driver usability.“With the global movement towards EV adoptions, we are excited and honored to be selected as a supplier by Hyundai MOBIS for both this and future digital display user interface development,” said Christopher Giordano, DiSTI’s Vice President of UX/UI Technology. “Our GL Studio technology, coupled with the engineering capability and cutting-edge design from Hyundai MOBIS, further establishes DiSTI’s innovative presence in the automotive industry. GL Studio’s UI Designer Workflow and built-in Safety-Critical capabilities are poised to revolutionize the production lifecycle for vehicle instrumentation.”For tight timelines, GL Studio^®’s built-in support for ISO 26262 Safety-Critical UI development has been pre-certified up to ASIL D to aid in exceeding internal design demands.DiSTI worked with Hyundai MOBIS to deliver this new platform and after a highly competitive evaluation process that included multiple proofs of concept iterations, Hyundai MOBIS adopted DiSTI’s GL Studio^® toolkit for its unmatched runtime engine performance, flexibility, rapid support, and ability to produce feature-rich, high-quality 3D embedded applications.GL Studio understands the importance of safety-crtical instrument cluster design. Contact our expert automotive user interface team today at Sales@Disti.com.

To address the growing demand for high-impact, cost-effective virtual reality (VR) training, HP Inc. today announced an alliance with the DiSTI Corporation, a leading global provider of VR and advanced human-machine interface development solutions. The companies will work together to develop unique VR training solutions for enterprise customers, with a specific focus on maintenance and operations training for complex systems such as vehicle, aircraft, and industrial equipment.

VR has become an effective training tool across many industries and it’s expected to grow to an $18 billion market by 20221. VR developers can create and interact with complex simulations, a form of participatory learning that’s more effective than traditional training programs. With HP’s Z VR Backpack, the most powerful wearable PC VR ever created, training becomes more seamless and realistic with an untethered VR experience. VR training has also been shown to positively impact employee recruiting and retention2 for enterprise customers.

“Virtual reality is creating tremendous opportunities for companies to reinvent workflows and unleash innovation. HP has built powerful commercial VR capabilities and we’re excited to work with industry-leading partners like DiSTI to create the immersive experiences of the future,” said Jay Fraser, global head of VR for training, HP Inc. “HP’s versatile and high-powered devices, combined with DiSTI’s VE Studio® development platform, will empower customers to create cost-effective VR training solutions that safely replicate real-world environments and processes in rich detail.”

Starting today, HP and DiSTI will offer end-to-end enterprise virtual training solutions3 – from development to deployment – based on HP’s VR-ready hardware and DiSTI’s VE Studio® Development Platform. Customers can use the VE Studio suite to develop their own virtual training applications or have DiSTI and HP professional services teams assist in designing and building their solutions. HP’s comprehensive hardware portfolio features HP Z Desktop Workstations, including the most powerful workstations on the planet4 – the HP Z8 Workstation; the HP ZBook 17 Mobile Workstation, and the HP Z VR Backpack, the world’s first professional wearable VR PC5. VE Studio® enables rapid and cost-effective development and creates accurate hands-on experiences while HP hardware seamlessly delivers them via fast processing power and high-fidelity graphics.

“There is tremendous market demand for enterprise-level virtual training solutions that can be rapidly implemented, are cost-effective, and can be developed and managed by internal staff,” said John Cunningham, Chief Revenue Officer of DiSTI. “Many companies have identified the need to implement VR-enabled training but struggle with how to get started and scale due to the lack of internal expertise and the availability of cost-effective solutions. We are excited that HP has made a commitment to virtual training with the establishment of the VR – unit and look forward to this relationship which will accelerate industry adoption of VR Training.”

For over 20 years, DiSTI has developed 3D virtual training solutions for companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Nissan Motors and have developed a patented and proven database-driven development platform called VE Studio which dramatically reduces the time and cost of developing 3D training solutions and allows for reuse of content for delivery to desktop, mobile and virtual reality devices. By integrating VE Studio with HP’s VR-ready products the companies can offer enterprise customers with a cost-effective end-to-end training solution.

To learn more about DiSTI’s virtual training solutions, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, the world’s leading provider of 3D virtual training solutions, and Agueris, the European leader in training and simulation and member of the CMI Group, are proud to announce their strategic partnership to jointly develop 3D Virtual Maintenance Training Solutions for the European market.

These solutions will be based on DiSTI’s virtual training solution, VE Studio. VE Studio uses a unique database-driven approach that optimizes developing and managing content, training procedures, and content delivery to multiple types of interfaces to provide customers with immersive training experiences at the highest level of quality and flexibility.

The relationship is part of the DiSTI strategic partnership program implemented to develop new industry solutions and supply the demand for improving workforce training. Over the past 15 years, DiSTI has been a leader in developing virtual training solutions for the military and aviation market and is expanding into other industries that desire 3D training to improve workforce development. VE Studio incorporates DiSTI’s patented development process into a technology platform that greatly improves the delivery process for virtual training. DiSTI is now extending its global reach through a select number of strategic partnerships.

For Agueris, this partnership aligns with their ambition to expand their direct activity and develop innovative maintenance training solutions for the market, including companies within the CMI Group, in order to increase productivity, improve safety, and create new services for the customers.

Commenting on this partnership agreement, Yves Jourde, Agueris CEO, stated, “We see a growing demand in the market for Virtual Maintenance Training solutions. VE Studio provides us with a very efficient platform. It provides us with the capability to deliver training content to different devices such as desktops, tablets, and virtual reality devices, without having to redevelop content for each device. This is very important for our customers who need to conduct training in different places and on different types of devices. DiSTI’s process and methodology greatly simplifies the development cycle making it easy to implement changes. We have experienced that we can reduce the time and cost it takes to develop a training solution by half compared with conventional methods. This is great news for our customers who have a real need for these VMT solutions.”

John Cunningham, Chief Revenue Officer, DiSTI, stated, “Agueris is a leader in the simulation and virtual training industry in Europe and is a perfect partner to work with as we expand our business in that market. We are very excited that Agueris has chosen to develop their maintenance training solutions exclusively with VE Studio and look forward to collaborating with them in the development of solutions for their market.”

To learn more about DiSTI’s virtual maintenance training solutions or our professional partnerships, please contact Sales@Disti.com.

The DiSTI Corporation, a leading provider of graphical user interface development software to the automotive, aerospace, and medical industries announces the use of its GL Studio software for the development of the Jaguar Land Rover’s new 2016 Jaguar XJ InControl© Touch Pro™ infotainment system. Embedded into the 2016 Jaguar XJ’s touch screen infotainment system, GL Studio serves as the user interface layer for the unit.

“In terms of its technology, (the XJ) does not disappoint,” said Andrew Hard of Digital Trends. “There are many futuristic standouts on the XJ, but the brightest of the bunch is the new InControl Touch Pro infotainment unit.”

Created with the user experience in mind, DiSTI’s new mobile-friendly website includes many new features to help users quickly and easily navigate the site to find the information they seek.

“Perhaps the biggest change on the new XJ comes in the form of technology,” said Kelly Pleskot of Motor Trend.

CNET Magazine’s Chris Paukert sums up the new InControl Touch Pro in one word, “Impressive.”

Jaguar Land Rover used GL Studio for the creation of the infotainment and rear-seat entertainment system interfaces. These interfaces were entirely conceived in-house at Jaguar Land Rover. The XJ’s touch screen display allows users to manage functions such as climate control, audio, communications, navigation and allows users to customize their home screen wallpaper and create personalized widgets. Designed to minimize driver distraction and maximize the user experience, the simple and intuitive InControl^© Touch Pro^™ featuring GL Studio enables the touch screen display to respond to common ‘pinch to zoom’ and ‘swipe’ gestures to provide ease of use for drivers. The highly responsive interface comes from GL Studio’s native object code generation and the fastest runtime software in the industry, in addition to the units Quad-Core Intel Processor and the 60GB SSD. The full-screen navigation display improves the line of site to allow drivers to focus more on the road.

“We are proud to deliver the next generation in HMI technology to industry leader Jaguar Land Rover,” said Christopher Giordano, Vice President of DiSTI’s Automotive Division and JLR Program Manager for DiSTI. “GL Studio was designed to provide the ultimate user experience and delivers just that within the cutting edge technology of the 2016 Jaguar XJ.”

DiSTI worked with automotive industry leaders to deliver this revolutionary system. After a highly competitive year-long evaluation process, Jaguar Land Rover adopted and standardized on DiSTI’s GL Studio toolkit for its unmatched performance, rapid support, and ability to produce feature-rich high-quality 3D embedded applications. Strategically crafted to successfully meet or exceed internal design demands, Jaguar Land Rover implemented the use of GL Studio company-wide for all embedded HMI prototyping and production target infotainment systems.

To learn more about DiSTI’s experience in automotive Infotainment solutions, please contact Sales@Disti.com.