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[Homeland Security, Science and Technology]
[Darren Wilson] The Augmented Reality Sandtable

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or (ARES) is the tool that

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mimics the terrain in a mission space. Showing

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peaks, valleys, ridges, mountains, trails and

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allows groups or small units to get situational

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awareness, visualize that mission space and better

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prepare for whatever the mission is. [Thomas
Madrid] The early ideas of the Sandtable from

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our points was a phone static table that was as
best as we could

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develop to the terrain features. Thee typography

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of the training area that we used, but we have

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probably five or six different areas that we are able
to train and have different types of terrain.

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We would technically have to make a phone
table for every area that we've trained

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in and the Augmented Reality Sandtable
now allows us to change the terrain

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to fit the training area that we are training in at

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that time. The foam Sandtable we just
weren't able to do that.

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[Darren]The U.S. Border Patrol Training Academy,
approached us with a need to improve their

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sign-cutting and tracking capabilities.
Specifically with respect to

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their ability to do mission pre-brief,

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mission planning and after action review.
[Thomas]You're able to upload maps various

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areas of operation. Whether it be on the border in

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a sector area or station responsibility or a training

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area such as our academy. You can overlay that

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picture onto the sand and it mold and move based

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on the typography lines that are overlaid
on the sand. After the U.S.

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Border Patrol Training Academy conveyed
their needs. S&T tapped it's

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network of federal partners, industry, academia
and other

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national laboratories to see what was out there.
What we call "Text Scout".

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S&T decided to go with the Augmented Reality

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Sandtable, because it was the perfect
combination of low cost, commercial

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off the shelf components. Government owned

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software and the reliability that could benefit or
patrol agents in the field

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and at the training academy. [Thomas] Because
we are able to bring the students in and have them

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observe the terrain that they will be working in.
We could have them come up with a

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terrain analyses prior to them even running
through a scenario. We could

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record the scenario that they went through
play it back and they could

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discuss pros and cons of the type of interdiction
that they used. [Darren] The Augmented

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Reality Sandtable also has all sorts of
enhancements and capabilities that are

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coming along, including a floor projected option
for briefing larger groups

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or training classes. That also includes

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things like the HALO Lens 2, which gives you the
mixed reality capabilities where

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you can actually see from any point

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of view on the 3D map, what you would be
looking at from that point on the

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on the terrain. [Jesse Azua] Recently we've

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really become engaged with Science
and Technology specific and Mr. Wilson

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on my part and I fee personally that we've grown

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and created a great partnership, even more
so here recently within

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the last couple of months and I hope that continues

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and were here to help each other out and
it's been nothing but positive 100%.

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[For more information: First.Responder@hq.dhs.gov]

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[Homeland Security, Science and Technology]

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