{"id":2799,"date":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2018\/01\/18\/vr-app-for-auckland-pilot-training\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T13:32:00","slug":"vr-app-for-auckland-pilot-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/equipment\/vr-app-for-auckland-pilot-training\/","title":{"rendered":"VR app for Auckland pilot training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Describing the app as a \u201cworld first\u201d which would be \u201cdisrupting bridge simulation in future\u201d, LWA chief executive Atta Elayyan said it enables pilots to accurately experience the practice of getting on and off vessels via a rope ladder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand there are no solutions like this anywhere in the world using VR headsets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur simulation is targeting the \u2018embarkation training\u2019, which is the physical process of safely manoeuvring outside the pilot boat and climbing a nine-metre ladder to board the ship, while both the pilot boat and ship are under way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elayyan added that the \u201chighly cost-effective VR training system\u201d required minimal physical space, was portable and also ensured PoAL and other users would not have to deploy costly ship bridge simulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch-based firm LWA Solutions has developed a virtual reality (VR) app to enable Ports of Auckland (PoAL) to safely train maritime pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}