In this article, CBS journalist David Martin reports:

Retired Army Sergeant Mark Covey runs what is undoubtedly the most high stakes video gaming center in the world. The videos are posted on a classified web site where soldiers bound for Iraq and Afghanistan practice against the latest enemy tactics. That’s just the beginning of what the Army has in mind: 3D battlefield simulations.

“This is next step in the serious gaming for training and that is to take a soldier and put him in the environment,” Covey said. “So in this case you know we’re in a humvee.”

The aim is to download the 3D simulations into a warehouse big enough to hold an entire platoon of soldiers learning to clear a village wherever the next war might be.

“We can rapidly change. We can go from an Afghan village to an Iraqi village to perhaps somewhere in the Philippines,” Covey said. “You’re only limited by your imagination.”

Military Training: 3D Simulator (Note the 3D glasses)

In the video segment, Sergeant Vane told Martin that since “3D monitors are prevalent in retail market…” with the 3D glasses, one can call up any file format (does he mean the 3D files?) and display in this type of “CAVE” to allow soldiers to get a feel of what it is like to be in the training environments (whether it is a Hum-V, a battle field, or a village…)

You can witness for yourself, how Martin flinched in real time (with sound effects), as he thought he was about to bump into the roof of a vehicle, or slam into a doorway… Of course, none of what he “saw” is real, but his reaction was very, very real! (This type of reactions argued for 3D simulation, hands down!)

A longer CBS coverage is also available on the YouTube: