Re:Bradley Trainer: Atari’s Military Project
by toomanybeersies on Sunday November 27, 2016 @04:43PM
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I always find it fascinating looking at these old "simulators" compared to modern ones, and have to wonder about the utility of them.
I guess people will say that in the future they will look at simulators like Virtual Battlespace (the military training version of ARMA) and wonder how anyone found them useful, when now you can get full VR and omnidirectional treadmills.
I guess it's all about what you're training for. I've played around on a very expensive (to the tune of 6 figures) static C-130 Hercules simulator. The point of the simulator wasn't to simulate rolling etc though, it was to simulate processes, so all the switches and panels were in the exact location that they were meant to be.
I guess people will say that in the future they will look at simulators like Virtual Battlespace (the military training version of ARMA) and wonder how anyone found them useful, when now you can get full VR and omnidirectional treadmills.
I guess it's all about what you're training for. I've played around on a very expensive (to the tune of 6 figures) static C-130 Hercules simulator. The point of the simulator wasn't to simulate rolling etc though, it was to simulate processes, so all the switches and panels were in the exact location that they were meant to be.