The conviction of those promoting the military metaverse has only grown as of late. However, attempts to integrate the virtual and actual worlds have run into difficulties as well. Now, even the US military is building its own metaverse.
On May 10, two fighter pilots conducted a proto-metaverse experiment at high altitude. They wore special AR headsets to link to a system that projected a ghostly, shimmering picture of a refueling aircraft traveling alongside them in the sky a few thousand feet above the California desert in a pair of Berkut 540 planes. Then, one of the pilots conducted a refueling procedure with the virtual tanker while the other watched. Hello and welcome to the nascent military metaverse.
These days, metaverse craze is gripping more than just Silicon Valley. As digital companies and corporations scramble to build virtual world initiatives, numerous defense startups, contractors, and financiers are increasingly touting the metaverse, even though ...