U.S. Wants to Train Soldiers With Body-Reading RPG

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Won't work unless they can make it like the holodeck on Star Trek... Videogames do not train you in any way to do anything in real life.

How do you know? It can be programmed, so why doesn't this train troops. It reacts to their body, not their thumbs pressing buttons and joysticks. That means they are actually doing things, and are therefore being trained, and a videogame can actually make a more realistic combat scenario or otherwise than a real life war game can since you can't have casualties in a game so there is flexibility. There's no reason that this can't work.

 

[Danpascooch]

I think it would be much more cost effective and more realistic to play dress up and roleplay.

Ladies and Gentlemen, billions of your tax dollars at work.

 

[Low Key]

Won't work unless they can make it like the holodeck on Star Trek... Videogames do not train you in any way to do anything in real life.

The military has increasingly been using video games to train their soldiers. Live training ops cost six figures to run, while virtual ops cost a fraction of that. That's just for the strategy side of things. There are also realistic shooting sims being used too, but those still need some work.

I think it would be much more cost effective and more realistic to play dress up and roleplay.

Ladies and Gentlemen, billions of your tax dollars at work.

Yeah? What's new? That's how the internet got started, mind you. The military purchased a bunch of servers and gave them to universities under the guise that if they needed them, the schools must relinquish them, but when would the military need a bunch of big ass servers? So basically, universities got servers on the taxpayers dime. The internet turned out to be a pretty fruitful endeavor, wouldn't you agree? Perhaps this might be as well.

 

[MortisLegio]

ok... if this works thats awesome

if not then their goes a few mil... billion down the drain

 

[DefunctTheory]

Well, US Military, you really only have one choice.

To the offices of BioWare!

 

[Phase_9]

This sounds like some really cool ideas and technology, and I agree, Bioware is the only choice.

 

[blaze2142]

That will have another way to make you start over.
You shot a civilian mission failed(like in rainbow six vegas 2).
Or it could be like the airport in modernwarfare2.
Either Or, it looks interesting.

 

[Trivun]

Won't work unless they can make it like the holodeck on Star Trek... Videogames do not train you in any way to do anything in real life.

So far they don't, but Natal is nothing like anything we've seen before. Personally, I'm with the US military on this one. And I also agree with Tom on the non-military aspects too. Better than the crazy social training videos the Japanese came up with, at least...

 

[blaze2142]

Did anyone else read the title as 'body reading RocketPropelledGrenade'?
I mean it doesn't make total sense but I thought there might of been some person seeking rocket

Lol thats what I thought at first too

 

[13lackfriday]

Sounds like a good investment...too often we resort to violence when negotiations breakdown either from linguistic or cultural barriers.
Teaching our nation's combatants that forced resolutions often have unhappy consequences is essential to repairing relations with civilians in occupied Middle Eastern territories.

Edit:

Did anyone else read the title as 'body reading RocketPropelledGrenade'?
I mean it doesn't make total sense but I thought there might of been some person seeking rocket

I thought we'd finally perfected guided missile technology to target weak points in enemy armor and attack for massive damage. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3e6Wy19jbo]

 

[Danpascooch]

Won't work unless they can make it like the holodeck on Star Trek... Videogames do not train you in any way to do anything in real life.

The military has increasingly been using video games to train their soldiers. Live training ops cost six figures to run, while virtual ops cost a fraction of that. That's just for the strategy side of things. There are also realistic shooting sims being used too, but those still need some work.

I think it would be much more cost effective and more realistic to play dress up and roleplay.

Ladies and Gentlemen, billions of your tax dollars at work.

Yeah? What's new? That's how the internet got started, mind you. The military purchased a bunch of servers and gave them to universities under the guise that if they needed them, the schools must relinquish them, but when would the military need a bunch of big ass servers? So basically, universities got servers on the taxpayers dime. The internet turned out to be a pretty fruitful endeavor, wouldn't you agree? Perhaps this might be as well.

Yeah, the internet is great, but that doesn't mean we should give the military free reign to develop whatever stupid thing it wants for billions of dollars with absolutely no oversight or questioning, that would be madness.

This looks to be probably one of the dumbest uses for tax dollars I've seen in a long time.

 

[Danpascooch]

Did anyone else read the title as 'body reading RocketPropelledGrenade'?
I mean it doesn't make total sense but I thought there might of been some person seeking rocket

Yeah, I did

 

[Low Key]

Yeah, the internet is great, but that doesn't mean we should give the military free reign to develop whatever stupid thing it wants for billions of dollars with absolutely no oversight or questioning, that would be madness.

This looks to be probably one of the dumbest uses for tax dollars I've seen in a long time.

I'm sure that's what people said about the military buying really expensive servers that they'd never use...

 

[Marter]

Next you'll be telling me that people are using video games to lose weight.

Wait, what?

 

[Danpascooch]

Yeah, the internet is great, but that doesn't mean we should give the military free reign to develop whatever stupid thing it wants for billions of dollars with absolutely no oversight or questioning, that would be madness.

This looks to be probably one of the dumbest uses for tax dollars I've seen in a long time.

I'm sure that's what people said about the military buying really expensive servers that they'd never use...

Should we not question an organization ever again if they have one huge success?

 

[Low Key]

Yeah, the internet is great, but that doesn't mean we should give the military free reign to develop whatever stupid thing it wants for billions of dollars with absolutely no oversight or questioning, that would be madness.

This looks to be probably one of the dumbest uses for tax dollars I've seen in a long time.

I'm sure that's what people said about the military buying really expensive servers that they'd never use...

Should we not question an organization ever again if they have one huge success?

Question all you'd like, but the money is already allotted. All they need is a company to develop it. It's not like there is anything you can do to stop it, so you might as well find some silver lining in the situation.

 

[Chiefmon]

The title makes me think of a Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher that gives you you temperature and weight.

*BOOM*... 98.6 Degrees Fahrenheit, 210 Pounds

 

[blarghblarghhhhh]

i dont agree with all the money the us government wastes, but atleast with this its very likely that I will see something cool spawn from it so im all for it. its alot better than some of the other shit the government wastes money on.

 

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