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Police officers from the Dallas suburb of McKinney are shown being put through their paces during a demonstration of Raytheon’s Virtsim law enforcement training environment. Although they were in an empty building, the lightweight virtual-reality glasses the officers wore made it appear to them that they were trying to capture a gunman on the street. Afterward, the system replayed the simulation, letting the officers review how they responded to the computer-generated crisis.












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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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