COMMENTARY


REDEFINING REALITY


Creating a metaverse model for mission planning.


by Thom Hawkins, Lt. Col. Matt Maness, Mark Dennison and Pete Khooshabeh


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aj. Gen. Narrowpass impatiently watched the timer on his augmented-reality visor countdown—still two more minutes. Turning toward his autonomous security bot, ASB-3, he grum- bled, “I hate waiting around to talk to my commanders just


because some soulless artificial intelligence has calculated the optimal windows to conduct long-haul transmissions.” ASB-3 knew it was not appropriate to respond to the comment; Narrowpass understood the consequences of transmitting outside of the communications survivability window and would not appreciate a reminder.


Te mission was too complex and there were too many variables; voice and video transmissions were not going to cut it at the moment. At his request, the distrib- uted division staff and all subordinate command-post constellations had aligned their communications windows to allow for a full rehearsal within the division’s cross-reality command post.


Narrowpass initiated his connection to the tactical metaverse and was immediately greeted by his chief of staff’s avatar as well as the primary staff and all subordi- nate commanders. Te ominous timer above the all-domain common operational picture showed fewer than 15 minutes before everyone in this virtual environ- ment would need to drop off for a survivability move or a temporary transmission halt. “Chief, roll the terrain fly-through and cue up the friction points on the 3D model. … I need to understand where we’re going to need to intervene in the fight.” Although the military metaverse is just a concept today, Army researchers are exploring its potential for the future.


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