Sundog Software CEO Frank Kane is Guest Columnist in Military Technology Training Magazine

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Frank Kane, founder and chief executive officer of Sundog Software in Orlando, which creates highly realistic specialized software used by developers worldwide to design training simulators and computer games, was invited to provide a guest column recently in Military Training Technology Magazine, the world’s leading professional publication for producers and users of training simulation equipment in military and commercial environments. Kane wrote about the cost benefits the commercial gaming industry provides for military buyers and defense contractors, and the competitive advantage enjoyed by providers who focus on both military and commercial gaming products. The military is able to acquire highly advanced training simulators at much lower costs thanks to the commercial gaming industry, Kane said. “We’re able to offer our 3-D water, sky and cloud effects at a much lower price than competing products made exclusively for the military training and simulation industry, since the game developer market is larger and also demands lower price points,” Kane wrote. Sundog Software’s newest Triton Ocean SDK software library Version 2.1, which is distributed worldwide, adds highly realistic three-dimensional water effects to games, simulations, and training applications with unparalleled realism in the look and action of ocean forces. “It’s possible today to create high-fidelity image generators capable of simulating the entire earth without incurring any per-channel licensing costs. Technology such as ours crossing over from the game development world, combined with the maturation of open-source frameworks, is making immersive training environments possible with very modest budgets,” Kane wrote. Sundog Software is a client company of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.