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Military Grade Neurogaming Coming Soon

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Mar 142020

World of Tanks Neurogaming

For some time now, people in the military industry have been wondering how we can best used forms of virtual entertainment, like video games, to boost our military capacity. Many companies have achieved this in the past, from tactical shooters like America’s Army and ARMA to more fun-finding games like World of Tanks. However, we are now seeing the developers of World of Tanks, Wargaming, move into a whole new niche: Neurogaming.

This deeply exciting idea is being run under the funding group name of VRTech. It’s going to be all about creating something akin to an IMAX VR experience for anyone who wishes to take part. It’s bene built for the competitive gaming scene, but it could have even more focus on helping everything from civil service training to military training.

At a recent demo from Wargaming, they also showed off a deeply exciting new program known as Polygon. Polygon is for all intents and purposes a unique military training simulator. This has become one of the richest, highest quality simulators that most people who have been given access to it have ever seen. They say that it feels incredibly realistic; that moving through an area with your fireteam feels about as real as we could expect a VR simulation to feel at this moment in time.

As part of their wider Neurogaming system, this is using a rift of computers powered with OptiTrack and Oculus Rift set-ups all around you. they are attached to the legs, feet, hands, and arms to help improve body immersion. It’s looking like one of the most in-depth opportunities for military and warfare training that we have ever seen.

With it providing a multiplayer option already, people who tried it out weren’t even on the same continent yet enjoyed flawless gameplay together. The quality of the body animation is said to be the best that we have seen in a VR simulation yet and could only improve. Given this is till a prototype, it’s scary to think of the potential for such software to change how we do almost every aspect of our military training.

For now, though, it’s still quite some way away from release. For those who doubted the idea of ever having military-grade training tools to work with, though, times are changing. VR always had the potential to change how our services train themselves: who ever thought it would get so real so fast, though?

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NY Mets Using Virtual Reality to Compete

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Jul 212019

For years, sports teams have been building a better plan to become more competitive and to stay ahead of their opponents. However, one form of tech that has become more and more important in the world of sport is to make the use of virtual reality (VR).

This has become a major form of sports analysis, giving players and coaching staff the chance to rebuild their skills, focus on their strengths, and hide their weaknesses. This is not just for any old team, though; it’s even for major sporting institutions such as the New York Mets.

Baseball is a sport that is all about analysis and being able to use numbers to learn more about the opposition. It’s also about improving accuracy and ensuring that shots become more powerful, misses less prevalent, and catches more likely to result in success and to put the opponent out. That is why the Mets are now using virtual reality to try and make sure that they can continue to compete at the top of the sporting calendar.

Indeed, thanks to the Meta, we can now see a team that is able to use VR to help improve their game in so many ways. This has become something that is getting spoken about all the time in sport, with major sporting teams in basketball, soccer, and other major worldwide sports starting to use the power of VR to help amplify their teaching and coaching to produce better results on the field.

Using VR to improve accuracy in every shot

As part of their new daily routine, the Mets have taken to using VR to try and improve their hitting accuracy. This new hitting tool is making sure that the players are able to play and train to the best of their ability, giving players all the help that they need to ensure that they always have the right kind of coaching there – even when coaches are working on other stuff.

By always having a reference like this to fall back on, players can pick up valuable information about what they are doing wrong so that they can keep on self-developing. It’s going to be thanks to tools like this that teams like the Mets can continue to push for sporting excellence. As we continue to see sports combine ever more with technology, the addition of tools like this into the bargain is only likely to result in even more impressive sporting performances from the very best in the business.

So, what’s next – golfing, tennis or coming to a Wii near you?

Could Virtual Reality Help Children with ADHD?

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May 262019

For many parents, helping your child who suffers from ADHD can feel quite exhausting. Today, there are many classes and solutions developed purely with the idea of helping your children cope with their condition. Sometimes, though, the options might just not feel diverse enough. One option that is being developed at the moment, though, is the use of virtual reality for ADHD children.

Virtual reality has quietly exploded as the next form of entertainment – a transformative means of interacting with the things we enjoy. A new study by the UC David Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, though, shows promise that VR could be used to help ADHD sufferers.

This is going to help children suffering from the disorder to minimise distraction, according to their latest press release. The research lead on the study at the MIND Institute, Dr. Julie Schweitzer, said: “I was talking to a parent who told me when she was in law school studying for the bar she was studying in noisy cafes,

“Eventually, she learned to block out everything around her. But now she wishes her son could learn to do the same.”

The aim is to help use VR to give children an easier time practicing on focusing on objects of importance. It would not involve clinical treatment, and it would be something that could be used in real-life situations. Part of the challenge with ADHD can come from helping children to focus on situations. With VR, the level of realism in the situations they’ll be focusing on can feel that bit more immersive.

The purpose of the study

The aim of the research, then, is quite simple. They will send each participant home with a VR headset, that is programmed to use a 25-minute training session per day. It would put them in a location where there are distractions that they need to overcome. The logic, then, is that the children will become more used to distractions that could otherwise snap their focus.

Now, when they are in a real brick and mortar classroom, they should already be used to distraction. This should help them to become much more alert to the matter at hand: the actual lesson. This could cut down on distraction and maintain a higher level of day-to-day focus in the children. During the training, they’ll be given a classroom-like environment, and go through an exposure therapy session. It’s built upon the same ideals where VR has been used to help those with anxiety, and could offer much of the same benefits to ADHD children.

The researchers will be able to help children to become more focused and increase their score, reducing the likelihood that they will become distracted during lessons. For parents who worry about their children not taking in enough during education, then, this could be the development that you desire.

Until more detail is released from the finding of the studies, though, at the moment this is just a theory. It will, though, be very interesting to see the results of the study when they are finally released.

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