While people training to be military pilots and private pilots have been using computer flight simulators for years, Bugeye Technologies is the first to use actual military flight simulation technology in their 3-D coin-operated arcade games. Founded in March of last year by Doug Swain, Mike Stockton and Ed Elking, former Boeing employees, Bugeye Technologies was formed through Boeing's Chairman's Innovation Initiative that allowed Boeing employees to start new businesses using Boeing technologies.

Bugeye focuses on making arcade games using a special lens to magnify the image and create the illusion of depth in addition to using multiple overlapping screens to create a panoramic, immersive experience for the gamer. Though they've developed their own six-window Bugeye simulator platform with a game called BLAZE, the three-window display monitor is compatible with about a hundred commercially available PC games.

So, you might ask, what's so great about using multiple screens? When you sit in front of the screens, special lenses magnify the image so you feel like you're immersed in the action, and the Bugeye drivers overlap the video image so you don't see the borders in between each screen. This can create a very realistic feel to a flight simulator, racing game or first-person shooter, and works on most PCs with Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

To find out more about the history of Bugeye Technologies, you can check out this article in the St. Louis Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/01/26/focus7.html

See video footage of flight simulators or order your own monitor setup on the Bugeye Technologies website: http://www.bugeyetech.com

 

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