The Indian Army will use VR and AR simulations to educate its soldiers in the metaverse in the new Wargame Research and Development Centre
The hour requires to adapt to new battle patterns with minimal training casualties, but the hurdles are numerous. The metaverse and its associated issues will revolutionise the Indian defence force in the future.
Indian Army Will Now Train In Metaverse With AI Powered Wargame Research And Development Centre (WARDEC) Opening In New Delhi
Before 2014, the Indian Army’s largest difficulty was its failure to keep up with the rate of modernisation. But, thanks to Prime Minister Modi, the Army’s futuristic armaments and munitions have experienced substantial modifications. It has now progressed to the point where the warriors will be trained in the metaverse.
The Indian Army’s Wargame Research & Development Centre (WARDEC) is set to open in India’s capital. The Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gandhinagar-based Central University, and an Institute of National Importance will collaborate to create it. RRU specialises in policing and national security. For this goal, it has a memorandum of understanding with the Army Training Command. The obligation for preparing the laboratory will be handled by Tech Mahindra.
WARDEC is a mechanism for the Indian Army to enter the metaverse
Colonel Nidhish Bhatnagar, Director, School of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security at RRU, praised the initiative to the nation, saying:
“The RRU has enhanced capabilities in domains of Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security, as well as defence and strategic studies.” RRU will construct the gaming centre, which will incorporate emerging technologies into wargame development, in collaboration with Maker’s Lab, which is Tech Mahindra’s research and development branch. This will provide users with a realistic experience.”
WARDEC will be the country’s first simulation-based training centre. The Centre will create virtual reality wargames with artificial intelligence. These games will all take place in the metaverse. However, their physical and psychological effects on the player will be completely genuine. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) will be used to imitate the environment (AR).
An RRU officer said, “In metaverse, the players will get a realistic experience of the actual situation. If a weapon weighing 5 kg drops or the air pressure falls, they will feel it like anyone would in a live situation, real-time. The game would play out player versus player, player versus computer or even computer versus computer.”
While the Indian Army will provide its data to build the game’s backdrop to model its metaverse according to its own needs. The data will include a realistic battlefield as well as several other potential obstacles that soldiers may encounter. While these locations could be a conflict zone, a terrorist target like the Taj Hotel, or an insurgent-infested region like Bastar.