Infantry Carrier Vehicle Testbed (ICV)
The Infantry Carrier Vehicle Testbed or ICV was the second simulator I built while working at the University of Central Florida Institute for Simulation and Training. As with the C2V, I made the design in Autodesk’s AutoCAD, and contracted Metters to build the frame. I started working on the design in July of 2003, and by August it was finished. Initially the testbed was designed to simulate a crew-station with positions for a driver and a commander, and did not include a hull or enclosure.
ICV CAD Solid Model Outside View 
ICV As-Built Outside View
The images shown here are from a latter modification where we added a hull and turret. This addition was done in the beginning of 2006. A unique and challenging requirement for the hull design was to be able to ship it in small containers when going to shows, hence the design made from rectangular panels that can be disassembled.
ICV CAD Solid Model Inside View 
ICV As-Built Inside View
The main objective of the hull addition was to support research on an optical see-through Head Mounted Display or HMD prototype created by a collaboration between UCF and NVIS corporation. The technology behind this HMD was that it projected the simulation images via a semi-reflective glass in front of your eyes and into whatever your where looking at; when you looked at any surface with retro-reflective material, the projection would bounce towards your eyes, and you would see the simulated images. In my design, when you looked at the turret from the outside, it was just a prop of, well, a turret, but on the inside, it housed a cylinder of retro-reflective material and a head tracking system. When you stood up, and put your head inside the cylinder, you would experience a 360° view of the virtual world, or in essence an out of the hatch experience.