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Navy Moving Closer To Taking Submarine Training Into The Virtual World

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Friday, July 9th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Navy has been using virtual worlds to help foster better collaboration and innovation within the undersea fleet. Those efforts are being incorporated into training of submariners and design of the future fleet, Steve Aguiar, virtual worlds program lead at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, R.I., told Defense Daily recently. With the advances being made in Web 2.0, modeling and simulation, computer-aided design, and gaming technologies all coming together in a new capability called virtual worlds, and…

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