Video: Marines Training With Virtual Immersive Trainer
From the Office of Naval Research:
The Infantry Immersive Trainer (IIT) is one of several virtual environment training projects that recently emerged out of a decade´s worth of Office of Naval Research (ONR) science and technology investment. IIT will focus on treating Marines and Sailors and their supporting equipment (e.g., weaponry and information systems) as an integrated system to enable Naval warriors to win and survive in battle.
After the investment of nearly $75 million in human performance-, training-, and education-related technologies, ONR continues to focus on the advancement of optimizing warfighter performance in operational environments through technology development for the Marine Corps and the Navy. The IIT system will incorporate several ONR-sponsored technologies, as well as technologies sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command at the University of Southern California´s Institute for Creative Technologies. ONR´s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism science and technology department is leading the way to create training and education systems as part of the recently approved distributed operations Naval science and technology focus area. Distributed operations will enable dispersed small units to dominate an extended battlespace through advanced warfighter training. ONR has targeted $50 million over the next five years for its Human Performance, Training, and Education (HPT&E) program to develop the next generation of science and technology to optimize warfighter performance and small unit excellence.
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Very interesting My full time job is a civilian company contracted out to the military called “Close Contact Tactical Trainer”(www.ca-cctt.com) which has a Platoon of M2A2 Bradley Vehicles and M1A1 Abrams Tank simulators. The soldiers can train in these simulated vehicles and practices there maneuvers and battle SOPs. Though Virtual Reality simulators are very good they should not replace live training. With a combination of Virtual and live training the soldier has a very good chance of surviving in a combat environment.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:40 pm