E51 – Red 6 and the Military Metaverse

Red 6 CEO and co-founder Dan Robinson discusses augmented reality for pilots, the military metaverse, and the future of high-end training and tactics development.

Red 6 was founded in 2018 around a revolutionary approach to military flight training called ATARS—the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System—that creates virtual outdoor worlds to deliver threat-relevant,near-peer-level training scenarios.

It’s much more than an augmented reality helmet—it's rethinking the entire pilot training and readiness experience.

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00:00

00:42 intro

01:41 origin story

05:22 thesis of Red 6

06:17 co-founder meeting

10:43 lack of adversaries to train against

16:03 realism that gets missed

17:58 surface threats

21:03 progress and iteration

25:25 all of the technical challenges

27:20 suspension of disbelief

30:37 replacing helmet-mounted cueing

32:09 Enders Game

34:18 the Red 6 name

35:59 UK Royal Air Force

38:33 manned + unmanned

45:08 validating tactics and training

51:34 quality vs quantity training

54:30 the technology is coming

55:21 flying

56:43 the chief morale officer