Anyone who’s hardcore into Second Life and other virtual worlds can tell you that the potential for instruction and education is huge. An article over at the LA Times does the same, but visits some of the virtual environments created by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies which combines technologies like CAVE’s, Virtual Reality, and some hollywood magic to recreate some of the toughest and most challengest training scenarios to date.
Maintaining this kind of realism is key to the institute’s success, said Peter W. Singer, author of “Wired for War,” a book that examines robotic warfare. “The stuff that ICT does is really in a class of its own.”
via Technology: Computer simulation is a growing reality for instruction – latimes.com.
