Friday, December 4, 2015

Week 14

            I have always slightly been interested in what goes on in military training. I never would have though that gaming would become more than just an influence to war. Now it is apart of the training. This concept is kind of mind blowing in a way. With the technology that we have today it is amazing to me that they can develop something that has to do with corresponding gaming technology in a way of a mock of what it is like working in the military.
            As much as I think it is cool there is a lot of downsides to this type of training in my opinion. If you think of it just like in the presentation, they discussed that the backdrops of where they are might portray a stereotypical form of war. This could be about the biased opinion of certain groups of people and stereotyping them as an enemy of war. This kind of brain washes the mind to see certain people as bad even when they are not.
            The military have been using technology for a long time. They correspond with each other. Just the thought of how far the military has come with technology in relationship to war is amazing. With the types of warfare as well as what there is to get people ready for a war has changed a lot. This day in age the rapid growth of technology will not end soon and I am curious to see what comes next after the practice of using gaming to work with training.

            What was most interesting to me that I have never thought of was when the group brought up the drones and their controllers. The fact that the controllers were similar to what gaming consoles use makes it easier for some men and women to learn because of their practice already probably sitting in their living rooms. This also makes it easier for them to not think about what the drones actually do because they relate it to a fake world.

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