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| US Army powers training with video game technology |
| 2013-08-11 |
| This hits on my favorite sitting down activities, military shooters. I knew the army was using them to recruit, and to a lesser extent training, but now they have apparently intensified use of video games. Perhaps the US government could get into the act and use video game technology on how to get a job, and to use credit wisely, or how not to have children out of wedlock. You never see those video games. From TFA: This summer, the US Army's research & development command, RDECOM, has kicked off an experiment to try infusing the latest commercial video game technology into the Army's most important combat simulator. The new tech brings real potential for better military training -- but also a very real danger. Famous for powering games like 2012's Borderlands 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Epic Games, Inc.'s award-winning Unreal Engine is already used for military software ranging from medical simulators to the free game/recruiting tool America's Army. But what the Army wants to do this time is much more ambitious. It wants to use the latest version of the software, Unreal Engine 3, to improve the revolutionary but still somewhat stilted Dismounted Soldier Training System. Unlike earlier simulators that trained aircraft pilots in mock cockpits or tank crews in dummy vehicles, DSTS is the Army's first attempt at immersive virtual reality for ordinary infantrymen -- who after all suffer the vast majority of casualties in war. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 "Head shot!" "M-m-m-m-m-m-onster kill!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-08-11 11:30 |
| #2 >use credit wisely I'm the most libertarian here, but I think there's a case for licensing users of interest bearing loans. Have a test proving you can use credit wisely, calculate the interest and show you can work out the full cost before contracts with interest bearing credit are legal. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-08-11 08:45 |
| #1 You never see those video games. If you can put a game in 128Gs, that's a small chip these days. Install on a decent flat screen TV, which requires you to run a 10-20 minute game scenario to teach basic lessons of life, for 6 to 8 hours of operating time before it shuts itself off requiring a restart. Then hand them out as ObamaTVs, you know they'll grab them, free, free, free. Probably one of the few 'moral' teachings experiences they'll get in their environment. Probably a lot cheaper in the short and long run than all the graft being handed out under the guise of community organizing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-08-11 08:33 |