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C3IT: Cultural & Cognitive Combat Immersive Trainer


Overview

The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) needed to be able to demonstrate some of their technologies at conferences and other locations. C3IT was created as a portable immersive environment that would showcase speech recognition and natural language understanding.


What GPS Created

GPS built the environment which features an exterior marketplace set and an interior home set. It has three virtual displays: a marketplace where the trainee can interact with shopkeepers, an interior scene which lets the trainee interact with virtual characters, and an interior window with a view of an exterior street scene. ICT technologies were integrated with the physical aspects of the immersive environment.

Date delivered: November, 2006

How it works

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Trainees interact with virtual characters in scenarios, such as trying to find an insurgent after an IED explodes. Trainees must converse with the characters while being culturally sensitive in order to gain the information they desire.

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Virtual characters are life-sized projections on digital flat displays and respond to trainee questions in real time with natural conversation and culturally relevant responses while displaying realistic facial expressions and animated gestures.

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The scene out the virtual window lets trainees see what is going on outside the room where they are questioning local residents.


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Impact

GPS helped ICT successfully showcase their technology in a transportable package that can be seen by people in a variety of locations. C3IT demonstrates how scenarios relevant to specific training tasks can be created using ICT technologies and how Army training centers may be able to integrate these technologies into their future training.

Found on the Web:

http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2006/11/virtual_trainin.html#more

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