Unreal games engine licensed to FBI and other US agencies

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

However, a statement said that an agreement to provide the tech to one of the agencies involved - the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) - was worth more than $10m (£6.3m).
IARPA will use the engine to build what it calls "Serious Games", designed to help intelligence analysts tackle instinctual biases that might colour their findings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17535906

[LongBlade]

Cool. Let's hope it's put to good use and not wasted like so many other well-intended computer projects.

[Smuckatelli]

Extremely old news.......

[LongBlade]

Extremely old news.......

OK, then...so is it working well or another waste of money?

[Smuckatelli]

Extremely old news.......

OK, then...so is it working well or another waste of money?

It was very sucessful:

http://www.tacticallanguage.com/

DARPA funded the initial effort in 2005, with these funds we purchased the unreal engine 2.5. Only problem is the baseline system is still.....unreal engine 2.5. The license costs $$$$$$$$$$ but the technology keeps on changing. We adjusted a little by making it plug into VBS-2 so it keeps the tech on line.

There is a quote from some Smuck back in 2007:

As Mr. Paul Nichols, a former Marine gunnery sergeant and program manager for TCLTS in the Marine Corps has observed: "If somebody's skeptical of the idea of a video game training soldiers and Marines, I'd just tell them to come down and watch how driven and immersed they get with the program."3

http://alelo.com/files/SIMTECT07-experience_with_serious_games.pdf

[son_of_montfort]

^ I like the quote from the Gunnery Sergeant on the street.