ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the features, data-collection capabilities, limitations, and advantages of some of the immersive simulators being used by the US Army for military research applications. It provides examples of their use in evaluating systems and concepts for the dismounted soldier. Immersive simulators used in research concerned with issues affecting the shooting performance of dismounted soldiers should incorporate a shooting interface that physically resembles the weapon being evaluated in both form and weight so that the same techniques for aiming and firing are used and the effort and fatigue of holding the weapon are realized. One device that has been proven useful for US Army Research Laboratory's (ARL's) Human Research and Engineering Directorate's (HRED) research efforts is the Dismounted Infantryman Survivability and Lethality Test Bed (DISALT). The DISALT has been used to study a number of issues involving shooting performance.
