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Monday, August 3, 2009
Air Force awards InterSense an SBIR grant for tracking tech
By Mass High Tech Staff
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Motion-tracking technology company InterSense Inc. has landed a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop an autonomous training system designed to work with commercially available wearable computers.
Billerica-based InterSense had won Phase 1 funding for the project in July 2008. According to company officials, the system will be for use in augmented reality-training applications. The technology will be networked wirelessly, allowing trainers to track the location of multiple connected trainees during a simulation. While the exact amount of the funding for the most recent deal was not disclosed, Phase 2 SBIR deals usually come in at a value of just under $1 million.
In March, InterSense reported it was working with Israeli military training system developer BVR Systems Inc. to develop a personal location, tracking and monitoring device for firefighters and other first-responder personnel, dubbed the First Responders Independent Navigation Device. InterSense also applies its technology to the film world. The company developed a camera system that uses motion sensing technology to allow for real-world filming in a virtual environment. The product, called V-Cam, has been used in a handful of movies, including two Robert Zemeckis animated films
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