Proceedings of 12th International Research Conference 2019, KDU Assessing the Effectiveness and the Global Trends of Virtual Reality Technology as Part of Military Training Programs Attended by Sri Lanka Army within the Past Decade RMS Veronika1 and PADACS Jayathilaka2 1Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka 2General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka
[email protected] Abstract— Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows Virtual reality immersed virtual environment and give a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, ability to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions whether that environment is a simulation of the real world to interact with 3D worlds in virtual environment by or an imaginary world. It is the key to experiencing, feeling recreating a real life environment or situation instead of and touching the past, present and the future. It is the viewing a screen in front of them. medium of creating our own world, our own customized reality. In military, new technologies are used to improve VR applications are used in the main industries such as the process of training and development of skills of military medicine, education, entertainment and military. Beside people. Virtual Reality and its use in military applications the entertainment industry, Virtual Reality is used in has long been discussed, one of the main challengers face military operations and last year major countries in the by country like Sri Lanka is lack of knowledge about devices world invested millions of dollars to research and and unaffordable price for military institutes. Simulators development projects based on VR. and virtual environments are powerful tools to train people in "reality-like" situations with various of training This paper attempts to provide a general introduction to environments that Sri Lanka does not have.