About The Guest

Glenn Snyder, one of the founders and Chief Product Officer of Red 6 comes onto the podcast today. Glenn comes from a programming background leading him to create visual effects for feature films such as Star Wars, Transformers, and Ender’s Game. He moved more into the technical world as a technologist and consultant focusing on creating analog experiences with digital tools, and before starting Red6 was key in a number of leading VR and immersive technology projects.   

Website: https://www.red6ar.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glsnyder/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_glennsnyder/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/red6inc/

About The Episode

In today’s episode, We’ll be looking at how augmented reality is being used to improve the efficiency of air combat training.

Current flight training for the military is both incredibly expensive (up to 40,000 USD per hour for some aircraft) and doesn’t often prepare pilots for situations they may come across while in the air. Augmented reality can be used in live training and is a possible solution to these and other challenges faced by the military. 

In this episode we dive into the challenges of air combat training, How Red6 is bringing augmented reality into the cockpits and what benefits this brings. How artificial intelligence is changing the training experience, what the future of military training might be like, autonomous military drones and robots, and many other interesting points.