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Gaming Provides Opportunities, Skills For Military Metaverse

Military training in the metaverse will require a unique set of cognitive skills that gaming can help develop in future warfighters, officials said Nov. 30. Several Defense Department services have initiated programs to create military training platforms similar to the metaverse, such as the Army's Synthetic Training Enviornment and the Department of the Air Force's Spaceverse.

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Are Prestige Video Games the Future?

Today, we are seeing more and more discussions about who is writing, starring, and directing a game on the AAA side, and many smaller developers seem to ignore design and UX conventions in favor of making "Art." I'm using art in air-quotes, as many reviewers of mainstream sites and Youtubers will often eat up these games as some kind of "Brave, new," expression of games, such as 12 Minutes from 2021.

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NSWC Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity-Developed Gaming Simulation Prototype Delivers New Opportunities for U.S. Marines

A team at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity developed a prototype to utilize this increasing background in the gaming world to improve training solutions for the U.S. Marines. The Gaming Environment for Air Readiness prototype was developed over a 12-month period thanks to funding from the Office of Naval Research Global Tech Solutions.

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The Generative AI Revolution in Games

There hasn't been a technology this revolutionary for gaming since real-time 3D. Spend any time at all talking to game creators, and the sense of excitement and wonder is palpable. Of all entertainment, games will be most impacted by Generative AI Games are the most complex form of entertainment, in terms of the sheer number of asset types involved.

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