America's Army - FPS Psych Experiment

Posted by Zonk on Monday December 13, 2004 @05:44AM from the it-always-feels-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.

dory writes "Newsreview has up a story from October on America's Army and the way the military is using it. The piece discusses a clan, the Army's research mentality and implementations, as well as some MRI studies on gamers." From the article: "The Army has been collecting player information in a vast relational database system called "Andromeda," Wardynski said, which recruiters will be able to use to look up a player's statistics if one of them shows up in a recruiting office. A version of America's Army now in development will take that a step further, allowing players to create a "persistent" online alter-ego, one that steadily progresses through the virtual ranks by taking additional training or specialized missions, generating valuable data along the way."

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This was the plot of... by -dsr- · 2004-12-13 06:12 · Score: 5, Funny

The Last Starfighter, right? Video games scattered across the nation as secret military training, and the high-scorers being recruited.

Does the DoD now get *all* of their ideas from Hollywood?