The most effective solution for the ship handling training is the use of a ship simulator. Unfortunately, such simulators are extremely costly. To remedy this situation University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) started to develop a ship handling simulator, named ViduSayura. The salient feature of ViduSayura is that is entirely developed using the Commodity Off the Shelf hardware and open source software. Therefore ViduSayura is extremely cost effective and it also frees the users from getting locked into a vendor specific proprietary solution.Currently, Vidusayura is funded by National research council Sri Lanka.
