Development of Immersive Technologies in Military Education

The article discusses the specifics of teaching immersive technologies in military education. Because today the world's leading defense colleges and universities are actively involved in training and educating military leaders through simulation centers, where the training and professional skills of future military personnel are based on the use of immersive technologies in the field of defense. Analytical and synthetic evaluation of information about theoretical methods is used in the article, as well as pedagogical, psychological and didactic literature of immersion education is used in the article, an analysis of the advantages of using immersion education methods in military affairs is given. The new strategies discussed require a new level of communication, as general-purpose troops are replaced by mobile units that can be deployed anywhere in the world at any time. A fully equipped combat brigade must be deployed in four days, a division in five, and five divisions within a month. This requires simulation centers to become more mobile and efficient in their use of learning technologies. The simulation center, which operates at the junior officer training school of the National Defense Academy of Georgia, provides an opportunity to conduct training using digital technologies in a virtual environment as close as possible to reality, before field training. In the military, training in a virtual environment is ideal because once a VR solution is created, it can be improved and used over the years, adding new scenarios and improving graphics and effects. According to the conducted research, we consider it expedient to implement the experience of simulation centers of leading foreign military educational institutions in Georgia. It will also be justified to introduce digital technologies created by modern global start-ups in the junior officer training simulation center of the academy, which will allow future commanders to master the use of new technologies in the process of military training. The use of educational programs based on modern digital technologies will allow us to raise the education and training of junior commanders to a higher, more modern level.