[thedoc (OP)]

Can technology from video games be used outside the entertainment
industry?
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[syhprum]

The military want its personnel to kill whoever they want killed if they are brainwashed into believing its no different from killing people on the screen the less likely are they to disobey.

[Streets]

Have a group of U.S.Army Rangers play a game where the targets are beautiful naked women at play by a forest stream.  What do you think the result will be when an identical situation is encountered in real life?

[chiralSPO]

Games are one of the best ways to learn. Certainly one of the best ways to practice. Games can be done wrong too, and that's something to be careful of. But I would much rather have 10,000 well-armed soldiers descending on the enemy with thousands of hours of virtual combat, than the same force learning on the fly.

[elananova]

Simulations and gaming are nothing new to training in the Army. Tank crews train in multiple virtual environments including using the Close Combat Tactical Trainer and Advanced Gunnery Training Systems. But with the current pandemic, leaders had to find inventive ways to train their Soldiers. Can you be the crazy chef in such free cooking games for adults in the rush hour of these kitchen games?

[evan_au]

On the weekend, I went to an airshow, and the Army was letting members of the public try out their VR helicopter flight simulators - effectively a video game with realistic hand/foot controls.

Judging by the number of people ahead of me in the line who crashed and burned, it's much cheaper to use a game than a real helicopter. (In one case, the apprentice pilot flew straight through a dozen residential homes...)

I was able to take off, fly around a bit, and land (with a lot of help!).

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[Rodneyhhernandez]

I wouldn't call this games, I think for the military the most beneficial are the simulators.

[alancalverd]

One of the first air combat games I saw was installed in the bar of a flying club. It was promptly removed when an ab-initio student destroyed the Chief Flying Instructor, DFC. 

[coinblud]

Games like VR Combat Training, Full Spectrum Warrior, Tactical Iraqi, and many more. These have been used across many armies in the world.

[Bored chemist]

Should games be used to train the military?
Should we use them instead of actual wars?

[JesWade21]

Arma2 is most likely. I can't load the videos right now, but a few years ago, when a friend returned from basic, he asked if I'd ever played Arma 2 because they used it to train for situations or something.

[vdblnkr34]

No. In games if you die, you can start over again. In real life, if you die you go to see your ancestors.  It is only good for noobs to get comfortable doing this. And check if they can do it or like to do it. But for real life combat exercise is a bad for brain influence.