The U.S. Army will be using Crytek’s Cryengine 3 to develop a training simulator for its soldiers, a project that will apparently cost $ 57 million. Known as the Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS), it is being developed by a company called Intelligent Decisions.
The plan is to create a realistic training simulator that can mimic weather systems, dynamic environmental changes and which features squad-based interactions and motion sensor technology. The training sim will have a head-mounted display and portable computer system which will be used on a 10 by 10 foot pad, much like old virtual reality setups.
Floyd West of Intelligent Decisions, speaking to GamePro, said of the project “The goal is to complete common operating environments, so the things the Army is doing today would be Afghanistan, the mountainous, cavernous regions, and the Iraqi desert-like regions, as well as wooded areas. We have some geotypical and common operating environments built-in for training, but the system will come with an editor that allows real missions to be created in the field.”
The intent is to allow army operatives to simulate actual missions before heading out to undertake them.
Brett Venter
