Vegvisir: the Company showcases its Situational Awareness System for armoured vehicles at IDEX 2023

ABU DHABI. The Estonian-Croatian start-up Vegvisir has successfully completed the first field tests of its Mixed Reality Situational Awareness System, which provides armoured vehicle personnel with see-through-the-wall capability.

The company will be showcasing the solution at the IDEX 2023 exhibition in Abu Dhabi where, for the first time, it will be integrated onto the Milrem Robotics Type-X RCV presented at the EDGE Group PJSC stand.

Vegvisir consists of vehicle-mounted cameras and a fully immersive headset with ultra-low latency to provide an unobstructed field of view.

Vegvisir showcases its Situational Awareness System for armoured vehicles at IDEX 2023

It also includes the opportunity to add supplementary data overlays. This gives the vehicle’s personnel a 360-degree overview of what is happening in the immediate surroundings of the vehicle, thus enabling the users to better orientate and make more effective decisions on the battlefield.

According to CEO Ingvar Pärnamäe, field tests with the 1st Infantry Brigade Scouts Battalion of the Estonian Defence Forces garnered a great deal of positive feedback.

Everyone who used the solution confirmed that it provides a better view compared to periscopes, allowing them to make better decisions.

“Over the course of three days of testing, our solution was put into practice on the Patria Sisu XA-188 6×6 armoured personnel carrier and the CV-9035 Infantry Fighting Vehicle,” Pärnamäe explained.

“Test driving was conducted at speeds of 40-60 km/h on different landscapes, an old airfield, gravel roads and off-road. We gained a lot of valuable feedback, as well as reassurance that we’ve created a much-needed solution.”

The first field tests also proved that while wearing the VR goggles, crew members who normally suffer from motion sickness inside enclosed spaces like armoured vehicles are able to endure longer rides without any discomfort.

The head of the company added that further tests will be carried out over the coming months to evaluate Vegvisir’s performance on different armoured vehicles and obtain feedback from end-users.

“We aim to make Vegvisir compatible with most vehicle types and technologies used on our target markets,” he said.

Vegvisir at IDEX 2023

Vegvisir has presented the situational awareness system to a number of the largest military vehicle producers around the globe – several of whom expect to test the solution on their platform in the near future.

“We’ve also met with representatives of the defence forces and ministries in different countries and there is a lot of interest in Vegvisir,” Pärnamäe added. “We plan to release the first version of the finished product and immediately secure our first sales as early as this autumn.”

The company has launched a third round of funding to support the development of the solution.

“In the second round of funding we engaged investors from five European countries,” Pärnamäe said.

“As a result of higher than expected interest in the solution, we raised even more funds than we had originally planned. This time, we have a much more ambitious goal: to raise a total of 2 million € in investments, most of which has already been covered”.

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