Virtual Reality, Training's Future?

An Overview of Virtual Reality/Virtual Environments for Education and Training.- 1.- 1. Playing in the Mud: Turning Virtual Reality into Real Education and Training.- 2. Virtual Reality Simulator (VRS) for Training Ship Handling Skills.- 3. Virtual Reality for Training: Evaluating Transfer.- 4. Collective Training in Virtual Environments: Exploring Performance Requirements for Dismounted Soldier Simulation.- 5. Enhancing the Virtual Training Tool: Introducing Artificial Touch and Smell.- 6. Surgery 2001.- 7. Virtual Reality Training Simulator for Long Time Flight.- 8. Some Effects of Using Virtual Reality Technology: Data and Suggestions.- 9. Virtual Environment: For Learning or for Training?: A Cognitive Approach.- 10. Virtual Environment Technology in Training: Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Mission of 1993.- 11. VE and Training, Limitations, and Opportunities.- 12. Virtual Reality Issues in Training Environments: Summary of Current State of Office of Naval Research (ONR) Efforts.- 13. Intelligent Architecture: Desktop VR for Complex Strategic Design in Architecture and Planning.- 2: Lessons Learned or Lessons Not Yet Learned (But Often Revisited) About the Design, Application, and Management of Learning Technologies.- Lessons Learned or Lessons Not Yet Learned (But Often Revisited) about the Design, Application, and Management of Learning Technologies.- Appendix A: Individual Papers from Lessons Learned Workshop The Need for Evaluation and Assessment in Training and Simulation.- Cost of Flexible and Distance Learning.- What Have We Learned about Computer Based Instruction in Military Training?.- Lessons Learned about Systems Architecture for Training Designers Using Advanced Technologies.- Computer Based Training Lessons Learned from Projects.- Advanced Technologies Applied to Training Development.- Use of Virtual Reality in Training.- Lessons Learned Concerning Distance Learning.- Guidelines for Selecting an Authoring System.