Military, police, and firefighting virtual training is an innovative training method that crosses the boundaries between reality and virtuality, and is used to perform missions in various safety and risk situations or to prepare for crisis situations. The benefits of this virtual training are significant in many ways.

Since virtual training is conducted in a safe environment, personnel such as military, firefighters, and police officers must be trained in dangerous situations, but the risk of injury and accidents caused by it can be reduced. This is an advantage that missions can be effectively performed and risks minimized in a safe virtual environment without using actual equipment and environments. In addition, it provides various training scenarios and allows for simulating situations that are difficult to reproduce in real situations. Through this, military, firefighters, and police officers can prepare for various situations and deal with various challenges.

In this trend, Naviworks is developing and providing specialized virtual training for the military, police, and fire departments to enable efficient training using the metaverse. We met with Seong-man Seo, Vice President of Naviworks, who aims to lead metaverse technology and provide training in a realistic environment based on innovative technologies, to hear more about the company.

Please introduce the company

Naviworks is a metaverse specialized company that mainly conducts virtual reality and support control projects. The company's capabilities are based on its outstanding experience in successfully completing more than 150 national projects over 24 years. In particular, it provides products that have been verified and trusted by government agencies and various customers, including those in the defense and public industries.

In addition, it is developing products through a group of experts consisting of about 100 engineers and 30 project managers, and is developing products based on international certifications such as CMMI Level 3, ISO9001, and ISO14001 among international software engineering processes. In particular, through continuous research and development (R&D), we are striving to become a digital transformation company that combines cutting-edge technologies such as AI, big data, and cloud, and are leading the domestic software market.

Recently, Naviworks participated in the International Security Industry Fair, and after winning the National Police Agency project, we are building six advanced XR training centers as a project including a platform in the field of intelligent control based on virtual reality, and one of them, a mobile training center, has been completed and is being unveiled. In this way, Naviworks pursues continuous innovation and technological development, and is striving to achieve more projects and innovations at home and abroad.

Please explain your main business.

Naviworks provides services in two fields in the field of digital transformation: metaverse and intelligent control. In the field of metaverse, we are producing a domestically developed product called metaverse training using VTB-X (Virtual training block-X). VTB-X can be flexibly configured according to the training situation and purpose by utilizing modularized software and hardware.

The main features of our metaverse training system are immersive training utilizing various senses and an environment that can accommodate multiple participants. In addition, we maximize the effectiveness of training and increase the convenience of operation by utilizing AI technology. We provide various types of training systems such as VR, AR, MR, and XR according to customer needs. These functions show various control and training environments and provide standard training procedures such as 3D modeling of training objects, creation of training scenarios, execution of XR training, and automated post-evaluation.

Currently, we are applying this technology to various fields such as the police XR training system center, realistic training system in the fire department, variable tactical training simulator in the defense field, and VR/MR simulator.

In addition, Naviworks is providing services that integrate remote control and management in various fields such as C4I system and weapons and combat system in the defense field, and Naro control system in the public sector by utilizing the domestically developed METAIEYES platform in the intelligent control field. This service is currently being expanded to include the Army/Navy/Air Force and space sectors, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The biggest advantage of Naviworks is the development of domestic software, which ensures convenience in customization and maintenance. In addition, it uses an open operating system (OS) so that it can be easily modified and tuned according to the situation, allowing the development of 2D and 3D UI/UX based on the GIS engine used in the national defense, and effectively editing and analyzing functions including military symbols to improve them.

Through these features, it maintains relative superiority over competitors and secures technological superiority by acquiring various patents at home and abroad. Naviworks perfectly meets customer needs through domestic and advanced software, standardization of digital battlefields, and secures various required technologies by sector.

If there are any future goals or directions,

Naviworks is striving to continue to grow into the future as a leading company in the metaverse field. In addition to domestic and international markets, we are also paying attention to areas that are currently receiving significant attention in our country, such as space warfare and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAM) operation. In addition, in the defense sector, the unmanned market, MUM-T (Manned Unmanned-Teaming), is being formed, and we are developing technology in this challenging field.

In addition, we are developing technology that can be installed on any type of unmanned aerial vehicle by developing miniaturized board-type hardware, and we plan to expand and grow our business in the future. We are currently focusing on the software sector, but in the future, we plan to develop into a company that comprehensively handles software, networks, and hardware as a role that oversees the entire system.

In addition, we have successfully completed projects to build large-scale defense, police, and firefighting training facilities in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and we aim to become a global company in the defense, police, and firefighting training center construction sector. Based on this experience, we are expanding our business to Southeast Asia and Europe.

Recently, through the MSPO Poland defense exhibition, as part of K-defense competitiveness, Naviworks' simulator technology is being widely promoted, and at the end of November, the company will showcase its world-class technology through the I/ITSEC exhibition in the US, where leading global simulation companies boast their technological prowess.

Thus, we aim to continuously develop into a company that enhances the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises and plays a leading role in the global market by entering the global market as well as the domestic market.

Source: 경제in뉴스 독보적인 메타버스 기술을 통해 군, 경찰, 소방 전문 훈련에 혁신을 일으키다, 네비웍스 – 경제인뉴스 (newseconomy.kr)