HMARD

Helmet Mounted Augmented Reality Display

Inject geo-registered synthetic threats into live flight — standalone, no integration required.

CONFIDENTIAL FLIGHT TESTED PATENT PENDING

The Training Gap

Live aviation training is expensive, asset-intensive, and constrained by what you can safely put in the air. The missions that matter most — contested airspace, degraded visuals, multi-domain threats — are often unsafe or impossible to train live.

Simulators help, but they fail to recreate the real-world workload of the cockpit: vibration, weather, crew coordination, and the irreversible feel of flight.

Operators need a third path — train against synthetic threats while still flying the real aircraft.

The Solution

HMARD overlays a false world onto live flight. Geo-registered air, ground, and maritime entities appear through a helmet-mounted optical AR display — without tearing into avionics or waiting on a multi-year integration program.

Standalone by design. Optional aircraft data when available. Built for the missions that simulators cannot replicate and live ranges cannot afford.

Synthetic threats. Real aircraft. Real pilots. Real decisions.

What HMARD Delivers

Tracking

Head and aircraft tracking with persistent geo-registered objects — Polhemus-class / HMCS-equivalent tracking in a portable package.

Synthetic Environment

Air, ground, and maritime entities. Terrain, obstacles, traffic, and threats rendered into the pilot's view.

Training Control

False-world scenarios including brownout and whiteout simulation — conditions you cannot safely manufacture in live flight.

Impact

Scenarios previously impossible in live flight. Lower cost. Lower operational risk. Higher readiness.

The Hardware

Flight-tested prototype. Built for cockpit evaluation.

HMARD mounts to a standard HGU-56 helmet via the NVG interface — sunlight-readable optics, Polhemus-class head tracking, and a standalone compute path with optional avionics input (e.g. Garmin).


Form Factor	HGU-56 NVG-mount compatible
Optics	Sunlight-readable optical AR
Tracking	Polhemus-class / HMCS equivalent
Integration	Standalone — optional avionics data
Flight Test	~50 hours over 12 months
Status	Stable AR registration in live flight

Flight Tested

See It Fly

Live demonstration footage from the HMARD program

▶ Flight Demo Watch on YouTube

▶ System Demo Watch on YouTube

Market & Advantage

Initial Users

Tactical training units across rotary, fixed-wing, and test communities — DoW and commercial aviation synthetic training.

Why Now

DoD shift to Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC). Relentless pressure to cut cost and risk without sacrificing readiness.

Competitive Edge

No required avionics integration. True optical AR. Portable. Lower cost.

Dual Market

Built for defense training — equally relevant to commercial aviation synthetic training.

Leadership

Ben Myburgh

Retired U.S. Air Force combat helicopter pilot and Weapons School graduate. Provides operational validation for HMARD use in real-world missions.

Brandon Losacker

Aeromechanical engineer and commercial pilot focused on flight test and AR training systems. Leads HMARD system design and integration.

HMARD

Helmet Mounted Augmented Reality Display

Flight-tested prototype Patent pending Ready for operational transition

Inquiries Ben@HMARD.tech

The Raise

$375,000

Seeking capital to take a flight-tested prototype to a deployment-ready system — refined hardware, expanded scenarios, and operational validation for DoD transition.

Funds go to prototype refinement (size, weight, usability), software development (scenario expansion and robustness), flight testing on real aircraft, and manufacturing preparation for a producible system.