Virtual Cockpit Optimization Program
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The Virtual Cockpit Optimization Program (VCOP) was a U.S. Army program that involved making head-mounted displays. Microvision was awarded a contract to build HMDs as a part of the program.[1]
Boeing Phantom Works was a contractor on the project.
The “Virtual Cockpit” is a second application that has moved forward in the military with the main goal of providing a “software reconfigurable cockpit.” In the late 1990s the U.S. Army’s Program Manager-Aircrew Integrated Systems (PM-ACIS), Huntsville, Alabama, initiated the Virtual Cockpit Optimization Program (VCOP) to integrate advanced technologies into a single system. VCOP technologies included a Retinal Scanning Display (RSD).[2]