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British Army studies VR for collective training

30th November 2020 - 12:30 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Holsworthy

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The second iteration of a VR-based project for land training focuses on demonstrating collective training up to company level

As part of the British Army’s study into its Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP), QinetiQ is leading a ‘pathfinder project’ to consider how virtual training can be used to conduct collective training.

Known as Virtual Reality in Land Training (VRLT), the project uses Bohemia Interactive Simulation’s VBS4 gaming engine. According to the company’s head of sales, Rusty Orwin, the pathfinder project ‘is on an entirely different scale of ambition from any of the Army’s CTTP informing activities for training audience, scale and technologies used’.

This is the second iteration of VRLT and is aimed at demonstrating collective training

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