Dramatic changes are taking place in the way U.S. service men and women prepare for their assignments. Since 9/11, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is moving from a training cycle in which pre-deployment training events for units and staffs were predictable and occurred every 18-24 months, to one in which deployments are occurring every 10-to-12 months. The Department’s leadership views virtual simulation, where soldiers can experience a wider variety of realistic training scenarios more frequently, as one way to supplement live training to prepare its forces to go into harm's way

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ExpeditionDI is an un-tethered (i.e., wireless) man-wearable, open architecture COTS platform that immerses a dismounted infantry squad in high fidelity virtual environments, allowing them to interact with that environment using intuitive and instinctive natural motion and posture. ExpeditionDI’s breakthrough technology achieves this fully immersive experience by allowing previously unattainable levels of freedom of movement and operation while eliminating the need for facility infrastructure.

ExpeditionDI's genesis began in 2003 as an embedded training research project commissioned by the U.S Army Research, Development and Engineering Command - Simulation & Training Technology Center (RDECOM-STTC) under the Embedded Training for Dismounted Soldiers Science & Technology Objective (EDTS STO). That research was dedicated to potential dismounted embedded training solutions for the Army's Future Force Warrior and produced the Distributed Advanced Graphics Generator and Embedded Rehearsal System (DAGGERS). ETDS STO was eventually merged with the mounted embedded training research and became the Embedded Combined Arms Team Training-Mission Rehearsal Army Technology Objective (ECATT-MR ATO). Quantum 3D’s contribution to both Army Science & Technology programs gave the Army insight for the future with respect to dismounted embedded training solutions. The ExpeditionDI product, which is an outgrowth of these programs, leverages the technology developed to address future embedded training requirements to address current needs for immersive infantry simulation.