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