QinetiQ
We are a world-centre of excellence in research and development, and act as catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, technical, engineering and scientific expertise. The land, sea and air ranges we operate are some of the most advanced in the world.
The commercial arm of the government’s defence research capabilities, and as such remain relatively secretive.
Don’t know too much about these but they are making the link between VR and the army explicit. Apparently used to be a government body that got sold off privately (and made a load of rich people richer).
“With many of those plugging in members of the supposed “PlayStation Generation”, the troops intuitively took to the technological training aids and helped to generate quantifiable evidence, insights and data relating to the hi-tech tools’ suitability for readying troops for action.
As project lead, our recent interrogation of VR’s potential featured the integration of a range of devices and software geared towards delivering greater immersion for the training audience. These innovations included the incorporation of realistic weapons frames to enhance the authenticity of the VR simulation for dismounted soldiers.”
They have a nanomaterials division in Farnborough where they were working on Harry Potter style invisibility cloaks in 2007.
Bought tech firm Naimuri in 2020 for 25m
https://www.qinetiq.com/en/blogs/soldiers-help-sharpen-vision-for-vr
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1427218311864070150
https://www.business-live.co.uk/technology/manchester-software-developer-naimuri-acquired-18592983
Exhibiting at DSEI 2021