{"id":77365,"date":"2025-08-19T08:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:44:24","slug":"genysys-engine-co-down-ai-duo-hope-their-tech-will-help-future-pilot-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77365\/","title":{"rendered":"Genysys Engine: Co Down AI duo hope their tech will help future pilot navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma (33) and Matthew (35) Eaton of Genysys Engine have developed an interactive video game, dubbed Become the Dragon Rider, which simulates what riding a dragon would feel like.<\/p>\n

The Co Down team-of-two are co-founders of an AI research company which employs the technology to \u201cprotect the planet\u201d, with Emma picking up awards for related conservation tech work in the past.<\/p>\n

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Genysys Engine CEO Emma Eaton<\/p>\n

The game features a VR headset to visualise the experience and a saddle for users to detect the ups, downs and turns of the beast, with the final product set to feature speakers and fans for noise and wind.<\/p>\n

What makes the project unique is the AI programming of the dragon, who can decide to fly in a direction of its choosing and has wants or needs, which \u201cmakes him almost like the real animal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Genysys CEO Emma explained that what started out as a way to take immersive gaming to the next level quickly snowballed for the couple.<\/p>\n

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A view of Silent Valley reservoir<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just thought immersive experiences weren\u2019t really immersive enough,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new way that humans can really bond with AI and have almost real living animals within the game to create unique immersive experiences. The aim of that really is to improve education and scientific research long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of these pathways includes a pilot-guiding system to aid navigation in unexpected circumstances or difficult conditions.<\/p>\n

Chief technology officer Matthew provides his expertise to this aspect, with his background as an aerospace engineer officer.<\/p>\n

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Genysys Engine CEO Emma Eaton on the motion simulator<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we look at flight logs and things like that, it\u2019s normally down to slight human misjudgements,\u201d Emma explained. \u201cYour weight wasn\u2019t right, you didn\u2019t have enough stuff. So if you\u2019re up in a mountain and it\u2019s completely cloudy and your navigation system is dying, all you have is that little needle to try to direct you through the mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that\u2019s broken, then you would have our system, hopefully in the future, that would step in. And it would use the visuals to pretty much guide pilots safely to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo with the immersive experiences and the way that it can create its own scenario, you can create pretty much every single variation of what would happen in an aircraft.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd because you have that variation, you can train models and datasets on that to actually make a system that would be available during the flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The data from the simulator could be used to help safeguard pilots in flight<\/p>\n

The game created by the pair will be showcased at tech shows and stakeholder events in the coming months, with several investors in NI\u2019s expansive aerospace and technology industry already showing interest.<\/p>\n

Several \u201cprominent\u201d entertainment companies have also been reaching out to Genysys and use its model to develop other experiences, such as space travel or exploring the seas.<\/p>\n

Sites such as the Mourne Mountains, the Obel tower in Belfast and even local bars have all been added to the game to create \u201ca digital replica of NI\u201d.<\/p>\n

The company is also working with businesses which want to add their premises to the game via sponsorships.<\/p>\n

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Genysys has been garnered interest from a number of tech and entertainment companies<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the houses are kind of default for privacy and protection, but the landmarks are all there,\u201d Emma continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can fly down to the local bar. You can\u2019t go in it just yet; I just hope soon you\u2019ll be able to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of things you can actually do in terms of the sustainable tourism side. They were putting that gondola in [the Mournes] because they wanted people to be able to go up there for accessibility. [But this] is a new way for people to kind of see it without putting infrastructure into the current place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another aspect of the game is its reflection of real-time weather conditions and the time of day in NI.<\/p>\n

Emma explained: \u201cWe use a whole bunch of things to connect it to the real world. If it\u2019s snowing outside, it\u2019s snowing in the game… It correlates the date, time and the weather and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local legends and folklore from across the island have also been incorporated into to the experience: \u201cYou can transport through the fairy tree if you want to nip down to Belfast but don\u2019t want to fly the whole way there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also added in the blue light of Slieve Binnian, so you fly over the moor and you might see the blue light…\u201d<\/p>\n

A trial event will be held at Annalong Community Centre on November 29 for those who want to experience the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma (33) and Matthew (35) Eaton of Genysys Engine have developed an interactive video game, dubbed Become the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,11624,4308,1334,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-77365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-belfast","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}