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US Military Ramps Up Stinky VR Training
HarrisonSilp writes "CNN.com has a story regarding the U.S. Military's recent foray into using Virtual Reality as a training method. Being developed by Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), they call it Mission Rehearsal Exercise or MRE for short, and it is a most impressive setup. 'The 5-minute scenario is projected onto a 150-degree movie screen, complete with 10.2-channel audio that creates floor-shaking sound effects. To enhance the sense of reality, smells including burned charcoal can be pumped into the room.' It almost makes me want to write off college and join the army..."
The annoucement at http://www.isi.edu/uarc.html lists a couple dozen news sites that have covered this announcement.
If you're interested in the AI type stuff behind virtual/synthetic elements that would go along with this sort of thing, check out some SOAR/ASTT documents.
Soldiers continue to live in shitty housing, with hardly any benefits, and get paid like crap while counted on to sacrifice their lives.
Yet another Army idea due for the scrapper after countless $$$ is spent. Remember how much they spent on Land Warrior before they canceled that?
Instilling discipline, basic tactics, and getting recruits to understand just how much punishment their bodies can take.
SEAL, Munitions, Howitzer, Tank and Sharpshooter training is for...?
Small unit tactics, basic skills.
This dude deserves a "DUH!" award, if there was one.
What "this dude" is talking about when he refers to rehearsals is mission specific rehearsals. A unit rehearses a mission as much as possible so that people know their jobs and everyone else's and the mission as well as possible. The examples YOU cited are more general tactics and skills training.
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