Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology Andrew Parsons announced support totalling $488,000 to assist Virtual Marine with its Machine Learning Project. 

The investment from the province leverages other contributions from investors and the company, for a total project investment of $977,000.

Funding will be used for computers, simulators and software licencing, as well as salaries. 

Virtual Marine provides simulator-based training for small vessel and ice management operations.

Virtual Marine has already implemented adaptive training algorithms in some of its training systems and aims to make adaptive training a core feature for all its simulators.