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Collaboratively exploring virtual worlds
The Pentagon's Office of Training and Readiness Strategy's Advanced Distributed Learning laboratory worked with Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training and US Ignite to create a platform for distributed, immersive training applications. Called the Virtual World Framework (VWF), it makes interactive education more accessible to school districts by making it easier, faster, and less expensive to develop.
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Mark Torpey, principal investigator at Lockheed Martin, demonstrated the prototype Mars Game at the Beyond Today's Internet Summit in March 2015.
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To navigate the damaged rover across the surface of the red planet, students work together to solve puzzles that are really computer programming and math lessons in disguise.
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