New Image Generator Creates Immersive Training Environment.

* ORLANDO, Fla.--Digital training company CAE recently unveiled a new simulation image generator that uses a gaming engine to display realistic and immersive training environments.

The CAE Prodigy image generator can create highly realistic graphics with the Unreal Engine, a gaming engine made by video game and software developer Epic Games.

In November, CAE debuted the technology during the National Training and Simulation Association's annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida. NTSA is an affiliate of the National Defense Industrial Association.

Integrating Epic Games' Unreal Engine gives CAE the ability to enhance a simulation's realism and immersiveness, CAE Spokesperson Chris Stellwag said on the sidelines of the conference. The new engine allows the company to create high-scene density, enhanced lighting and special effects in its simulations.

"Specifically for things like fighter training tasks--when you're doing things like air refueling or formation flight--the fidelity and the realism of the virtual world is pretty critical," he said. "Those kinds of training tests are very expensive to do and sometimes potentially dangerous, so the more you can do that in a virtual world to ready the pilots... the better."

The company demonstrated the image generator with its e-series MR Prodigy Visual...