Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet

Roland Piquepaille writes "In this short article, InformationWeek writes that 'two sexy technologies that flamed out five years ago -- wearable computers and artificial reality -- are combined in a new training-development system' for the military. This system, developed by Quantum3D, includes a binocular head-mounted OLED display and head-leg-weapon motion-tracking systems, integrated with a vest-worn tactical visual computer. It runs under Windows XP and is compatible with the 802.11 a/b/g wireless networking standards. It will be used by the infantry to train soldiers, but it looks so complex that I would need intensive training just for using it. Read more for other details and an illustration of the full scary system."

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[rich_r]

Christ, I'm getting sick of roland bloody piqualle and his ghey bloody blog.
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[Doc Ruby]

No, I'd rather we didn't send them. And when we send them, I'd rather they get real training, whose results are understood. Any training - these soldiers are regularly thrown into situations for which they're not trained. Sometimes because the situation is a new kind of situation, unique to this "counterinsurgency" war, sometimes because we just skipped the training to get more bodies in the field - especially national guard.

Right - our troops are sissies now, more weakminded. No, it's because the whole catastrophe in Iraq, including the torture, the 100K+ killed Iraqi civilians, NO WMD, forced extended incountry... the list goes on. Are you American? Are you supporting our troops? How, by making weekend-warrior guardsmen into multi-year frontline vets?