[admiralEyebrows]

At the moment, no. VR is still in its infancy, and the experiences are distinguishable from reality in a way that they are closer to video games than real life.

However if VR and haptics are able to perfectly recreate war in the next few decades, let's hope that psychology develops in pace. A generation of teenagers who have been exposed to perfect recreations of trench warfare and 9/11 is a generation that will have more PTSD than any other generation before it.

[oliveshell]

I think there would be an important psychological difference in knowing that your life isn't really in danger, or your friend didn't really just get killed, and so on.

There's also the issue that such a realistic sim probably wouldn't be fun for a lot of people, and wouldn't get played that much.