Now officials want to expand the program. According to a $626,000 contractawarded Thursday to Atlanta-based company Virtually Better, Inc., phase three of the CDC’s plan calls for a virtual reality environment featuring from two to three dozen ”sights, sounds, smells or ideas.” (The notion of adding olfactory components to VR equipment has been kicking around for a while, and the CDC wants odors as varied as urine and garbage.) The agency also wants to be able to adjust the settings according to trainees’ experience levels. Disaster scenarios will be drawn straight from the Department of Homeland Security. With the training, the contract said, emergency workers will get a better “emotional vaccination,” and it might even help returning responders cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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