Realidade Virtual como ferramenta de apoio na tomada de decisão no Combate em Ambientes Confinados

Abstract

Modern combat increasingly takes place inside cities, often indoors, alleys,sheds, in environments with a restricted space where everything happens veryquickly and with opponents that are not easy to identify. In such a situation,positive identification of the target becomes essential so that the soldier cancorrectly decide whether or not to shoot what s/he is seeing. This is one of thechallenges that the Marine Corps faces: to prepare the soldier for a new realityin a safe and low-cost way. For this reason, Virtual Reality can be a plausiblesolution to this problem, preparing the military in its decision-making processand efficiently for a combat situation in a confined environment. The presentwork was based on two virtual environments, the first one is a training room,and the second a Close Quarters Battle (CQB). In both situations, 8 trainees were evaluated by 4 instructors, where we obtained positive results regardingthe possibility of use of the system in CQB training to teach positive target identification, in addition to proposals for future studies.