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Homeland Security Releasing VR School Shooting Training Simulator

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In response to the rising number of mass shootings in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security developed and released a WebVR training simulator last year called EDGE (Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment), which helped prepare first responders for the stressful moments of responding to an active shooter scene.

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When Philosophy Meets Virtual Reality

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“Virtual reality encompasses virtual unreality.” Predictive representations are illusions that are unreal and counterfactual. In the PSM-actions test, the researchers simulate an action in the self-model and a machine to perform it. In Virginia Woolf’s novel, a woman catches sight of a black mark on the wall.