Wired Danger Room - Virtual Worlds for Military Training

Today the Wired Danger Room Blog carried a summary of some ideas that I have been promoting on the use of virtual worlds for military training. The idea of a game on a soldier's desktop is old hat. The idea of a military virtual world that soldiers can access is relatively current. But the idea of the military creating a training service that allows any soldier or unit anywhere to access hundreds of different types of training systems and content - now that is a very big new idea. The Wired blog just begins to introduce that idea.

• Wired Danger Room Blog
• Simulation as an IT Service

Injecting 3D worlds directly into the brain

Experiments are being done to allow blind people to see objects by directly simulating their brain. This is a new way to sense the world or to sense a 3D virtual world. Could variations of this technology be used to overlay information from a virtual world with a sighted person’s perception of the real world? This would be a more intense/intrusive method of achieving augmented reality. So a soldier at National Training Center would be able to see the 3D image of an opponent that exists only in a simulation – a new step in Live/Virtual interoperability. Of course the question is who would allow this to be done to them and would it be any better than augmented reality using half-reflective glasses?

BBC Article
Wired Article