Armstrong Laboratory was a research and development organization operated by the
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...
Materiel Command.
In 1997, the Laboratory was merged into the
Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research and development detachment of the United States Air Force Air Force Materiel Command, Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of direct- ...
.
The Laboratory was named after Gen
Harry G. Armstrong, known as "the father of space medicine."
See also
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Virtual fixture
A virtual fixture is an overlay of augmented sensory information upon a user's perception of a real environment in order to improve human performance in both direct and remotely manipulated tasks. Developed in the early 1990s by Louis Rosenberg ...
, augmented reality system developed at Armstrong Laboratory
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