Oculus Rift now a Cyberwarafre tool
Who says that gaming doesn’t have a practical purpose or use? One group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, definitely doesn’t feel that way. The recently Facebook acquired Oculus Rift is the newest tool in defending against Cyberwarfare.
Thanks to a report by Wired, DARPA is working to use the Oculus Rift headset as a prototype network tool for cyberwarfare agents. The application of the Oculus Rift would allow the user to view the network as a visual 3D representation in an interactive way. Traditionally, networks are viewed as flat and one-dimensional.
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At this point, the whole idea is in a proof of concept stage. In order for the application to be put to use, the functionality has to be perfected. The goal is allowing both U.S. Cyber Command and other American military hackers the ability to more easily view and understand what is going on.
The Oculus Rift falls in DARPA’s Plan X, and the initiative is centered around creating a stable of tools for the Department of Defense to use to prevent cyberwarfare attacks.
Plan X is currently slated to run through 2017 for DARPA. Based on the report by Wired, the technology surrounding the application of Oculus Rift may not yet be ready by that time.
Though Facebook is working on the acquisition of Oculus VR, the parent company for Oculus Rift, there has yet to be a released version of the technology. Oculus has stated they would like to get the product out to the market prior to years end, but that timeline remains to be seen.