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Marines Explore ‘Augmented Reality’
Think of it as Google Glass goes to war — only less nerd and more Marine. Budget cuts and readiness shortfalls have the US military looking at virtual reality as a partial replacement for expensive field exercises. But VR has real limits. So this month, young Marines at the Infantry Officer Course in Quantico tested a technology to get the best of both worlds: augmented reality. While virtual reality puts the user in a completely computer-generated environment, augmented reality superimposes...
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