Virtual Reality for Training Russian SWAT
New simulator, called “Virtual Sphere”, helps SWAT troopers optimize their combat operations in cyberspace. The simulator makes the process similar to real life training. Virtual sphere looks like an ordinary hollow ball with 3 meters in diameter, connected to a computer. When a man enters the ball and puts on special virtual vision glasses, he dives into virtual reality. Glasses show changing images, and computer programme models environment with any kind of buildings.
Physical sensation in the ball is similar to that of a real mission, since trainee in the ball has to move and shoot from a virtual gun. Special sensors monitor trainee’s body state during virtual sessions.
Source: RIA Novosti (with video, in Russian).
