US military commission $57m virtual reality training sim powered by CryEngine 3

[symple19]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/31/us-military-commission-57m-virtual-reality-training-sim-powered-by-cryengine-3/


Wish this kind of shit had been around when I was in



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[symple19]

One of the only problems I have with this is that it
aims to provide a flexible training tool that should ultimately be cheaper than running similar live exercises.

The military needs to be doing more, not less, live fire training. But as a tool to compliment other types of training, this should be awesome

[symple19]

For all the bad things about the MIC, at least it pushes technology forward


The virtual reality headsets the trainees wear will run from a backpack unit similar to a top of the range gaming laptop, called the ‘Man Wearable Unit’. “While the man wearable units aren’t running on an off-the-shelf Alienware, the internal components themselves are commercial off-the-shelf CPU’s and GPU’s like NVIDIA graphic cards and whatnot,” says West.

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Roy Campbell: If you ask me, these so-called Next-Generation Special Forces should to be called "simulated soldiers". They have no real battle experience.

Solid Snake: Video game players, huh?

[MannyIsGod]

For all the bad things about the MIC, at least it pushes technology forward

Eh, the MIC is feeding off progress elsewhere

[koriwhat]

a friend of mine programs games for the military and they use custom gun controllers made in-house. he just recently got back from some thing out in the middle east he had to go to for a while that dealt with his job.