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Public Speaking

  • Lessons learned from scaling to 250+ developers – GameOn Lithuania Conference – 3 Nov 2018
    • Slides here
  • One Life Left with Gamasutra — GDC18 — Episode 3 – One Life Left podcast – 10 May 2018
    • Note: interview starts @ 38m
  • Depiction of War in Games: Can You Do Better? (note: behind paywall) – Game Developer’s Conference 2018 – 20 Mar 2018
    • Talk was ranked as 29th out of 113 talks
  • VR Use Cases of Military Simulations – Prague UX meetup – 21 Apr 2017
  • Czech VR Fest 2017 (no recording) – 24 May 2017

Media Coverage

  • The depiction of war in games: Can developers do better? – VentureBeat – 29 Apr 2018
  • GDC 2018: Depictions of Violence and War in Video Games and Destiny’s Sword – Massively Overpowered – 2 Apr 2018
  • War: From the modders to the Marines – Golem.de (original German article here) – 22 Mar 2018
  • GDC 2018: Proč by neměly být válečné hry o zabíjení, ale o válce – Games.cz (Czech language) – 21 Mar 2018
  • Military-themed video games can promote a damaging vision of real war – Gamasutra – 20 Mar 2018

Press Releases

  • BISim Develops New Tech to Support Swedish Training – overview of new features built for the Swedish – 18 Jul 2017
  • By Design: BISim Focuses on VBS User Experience – interview about design at BISim – 21 Mar 2016

Project Coverage

VBS2 / VBS3

  • Whitepaper: VBS2 – Bohemia Interactive Australia (an office of BISim) – 6 Jan 2012
  • Benefits of virtual testing felt on front line – UK Ministry of Defence – 28 Oct 2011
  • A War Training Platform From an Unlikely Source – The New York Times – 1 May 2011
  • Real Lessons from Virtual Battle – BBC News – 29 Aug 2008
  • At Fort Riley, video games simulate combat, save lives – The Topeka Capital-Journal – 25 Apr 2008
  • Operation Cold Steel Soldiers prepare for live-fire ops with VBS3 training – Army Reserve News Articles – 28 Apr 2017
  • UK MoD to use VBS3 software to train soldiers in virtual environment – Army Technology.com – 23 Nov 2016
  • Battlespace Platform (slide 40-41) – Military Training Technology – 19 Nov 2015
  • Virtual Battlespace 3 – US Army Stand-To! – 19 May 2014

DARPA TransApps

  • NIST Team Honored for Work on Military Smartphone Apps, Security – National Institute of Standards and Technology – 3 Sep 2014
  • Inside the Military’s Secretive Smartphone Program – Gizmodo – 5 Aug 2014
  • DARPA Pioneers Tactical Mobile Devices for Soldiers – US Department of Defense News – 11 Dec 2013
  • DARPA to create app store of military mobile apps that run on rugged smartphones and tablets – Military & Aerospace Electronics – 29 Apr 2013

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