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II. Description of the Technology

One might ask: What is Virtual Reality (VR)?

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology by which computer-aided stimuli creates the immersive

illusion of being somewhere else. It represents an extraordinary shift in the way human experience

the digital realm. By enveloping you in an artificial world, or bringing virtual objects into your real-

world environment, "spatial computing" allows you to interact more intuitively with those objects and

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information.

When VR became a reality, the military was one of the first to put it in action. The potential

of VR to help reduce the cost of combat training was something that is too big to be ignored. The

military investment in developing VR played a huge role in the advancement of the technology on

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a global scale.

2 https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-to-virtual-reality/
3 https://jasoren.com/vr-military-training-the-next-step-of-combat-evolution/
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