Army tests out augmented reality with training

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Army tests out augmented reality with training

The Army is tinkering with augmented reality capabilities to shore up soldiers' readiness as the coronavirus pandemic makes learning at a distance a necessity.

"How do we do collective training when we have to maintain disbursement for safety? It's the same problem we have with our technical operations commands. How do we make a collective decision, do collective brainstorming, have a collective understanding of a situation," said Cynthia Bedell, the director for the U.S. Army Research Lab's Computational & Information Sciences Directorate, during a presentation during the Association of the U.S. Army's (virtual) annual conference.

Bedell said using augmented reality for soldier training has been beneficial during the pandemic, but can also help the Army get the most out of in-person training because it allows for "crew training on simulated systems but from your own room" where each user can see their orientation from their perspective, such as the driver seat versus the front passenger seat of a vehicle.

"We could be trained up as high as we can be trained in a simulated environment before we go to the hard stand before we're out at the [National Training Center], so the time spent at the NTC is not doing the little things, it's doing the big things that matter that you can only do when you're actually on the the real equipment," Bedell told reporters Oct. 13.

"You do the training, you operate together, you understand each other's commands, thoughts, signals and you learn to be a team so when you do eventually b ..

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