DEFINITION:

Virtual Reality is the experience of being in a synthetic environment and the perceiving and interacting through sensors and effectors, actively and passively, with it and the objects in it, as if they were real. Virtual Reality technology allows the user to perceive and experience sensory contact and interact dynamically with such contact in any or all modalities.

(Source: ACARE Domain 617)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Training Environment: real-time geographically distributed flight-simulations
2. Mission preparation, rehearsal & evaluation
3. Concept development
4. Materiel design
5. Materiel testing
6. Personnel selection.
7. Task analysis
8. Man-in-the-loop simulation