Red 6 Closes $70 million Series B funding round to invest in AR-powered pilot training

Image Credits: UnsplashRed 6, a Florida, US-based military pilot training technology company, has completed a $70 million Series B funding round led by RedBird Capital Partners.Other investors included included Alpha Edison, Boeing’s AEI Horizon X Fund, Lockheed Ventures, Accelerator Investments through the Disney Accelerator program, Washington Harbour Partners, M-Cor Holdings, the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund, Moonshots Capital, Irongate, State of Florida Opportunity Fund, Alumni Ventures, Alliance Holdings, Alcazar Capital, and Robert Downey Jr.’s, Downey Labs.Launched in 2018, Red 6 develops Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), and Augmented Reality Command and Analytic Data Environment (ARCADE).According to Red 6 website, ATARS is a multi-node, all-domain AR system that delivers a complete outdoor synthetic training environment for multiple users. The technology allows pilots to experience the cognitive loads of physically flying airplanes while capturing the value of synthetics by enabling them to enter realistic, scalable, simulated training in the most dynamic of outdoor environments.The ARCADE system employs virtual reality to define, build, brief, and de-brief the training environments that users experience through ATARS. This allows users to precisely define the threat environments they will fly in and conduct a level of post-flight re-play and analysis that has until now been impossible. This fully immersive environment combines biometrics, flight data, and user inputs to improve the speed and efficacy of de-briefing.