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MilSim Asia 2016: Global militaries get serious about gaming

13th January 2016 - 13:50 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in London

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Gaming technology is being widely used to train today’s warfighter and industry is working to tackle some of the main requirements that international armed forces are looking for when choosing how to integrate game technology into their military simulations.

While the land sector has taken full advantage of desktop gaming to train its personnel, the naval sector is somewhat behind.

This is not through a lack of technology but more through a lack of necessity for the gaming applications as sailors are more likely to be trained on board vessels. Some ships also have their own simulators built in.

While

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Beth is Deputy Editor - Land at Shephard Media, managing coverage across all formats of …

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