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News | Aug. 22, 2023

Synthetic Environments for the Cyber Domain: A Survey on Advances, Gaps, and Opportunities

By Emily Nack and LTC Nathaniel D. Bastian, Ph.D.

The need to understand cyber vulnerabilities and information in real time is imper­ative and often mission-critical in battlefield scenarios. As technologies continue to evolve, a need arises for more time-efficient and effective solutions within the cyber domain. With the growing popularity of synthetic environment technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) in a variety of fields, the question emerges: How can applications of this technology be applied to the field of cyber and what impact can they have? In this article, we survey the body of knowledge, both theoretical and empirical, of existing works exploring AR, VR, and MR technologies as solutions to common cyber challenges, as well as discuss the advances, gaps, and opportunities of this technology within the cyber domain.

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