U.S. Navy to Showcase SEAL Virtual Reality Experience at South Florida High Schools | Coral Gables Community News# - Miami's Community Newspapers

CELEBRATION, Fla. (January 22, 2019) Students of Celebration High School enactment successful the Navy’s virtual world asset, the Nimitz, during the Navy Recruiting Command's “Swarm” Orlando evolution. Eighty-one Recruiters from Navy Recruiting Command, Navy Recruiting District Jacksonville and the Nimitz, compile a “Swarming Team,” which is simply a caller recruiting strategy successful enactment of the nationalist argumentation to physique a 355-ship Navy. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Hafer/Released)190122-N-JH668-0105

Navy Outreach and Diversity leaders volition sojourn G. Holmes Braddock High School connected Tuesday, January 24 and Coral Glades High School connected Thursday, January 26 successful hunt of high-ability students who person what it takes to excel successful high-demand STEM fields, specified arsenic atomic engineering, cryptology, IT and wellness care. The Navy besides volition stock accusation astir its $180,000 ROTC Scholarship Program, which pays afloat assemblage tuition for students with exceptional world and enactment credentials. The main attraction volition beryllium the Nimitz, a mobile, state-of the-art virtual world acquisition that simulates an existent high-speed SEAL mission. Video preview of the Nimitz.

“We are highly excited to walk clip successful South Florida, gathering with exceptional precocious schoolhouse students and faculty, and discussing the large opportunities disposable successful the Navy,” says LCDR Claudia Alday, with Navy Diversity and Outreach. “It is important for today’s students to recognize that a Navy STEM vocation offers an exceptional future.”

In summation to the events astatine G. Holmes Braddock and Coral Glades precocious schools, the Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience besides volition beryllium featured astatine the Coral Gables Art Festival connected Saturday and Sunday, January 28-29. Please spot details below.

The Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience
So, what precisely happens wrong the mobile, 18-wheeler, Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience? Participants spell done a video briefing earlier strapping connected an Oculus Rift headset and a portion of wearable exertion called a SubPac (traditionally utilized by Club DJs) that percusses successful existent clip to the sounds of the mission. Participants navigate the ngo utilizing a cutting-edge steering instrumentality and throttle strategy that replicate the existent sensation of piloting a high-speed Navy SWCC vessel portion extracting SEALs. Once finished, participants determination to the debriefing station, wherever they person feedback and a show grade.

Nimitz Schedule

Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience

1. Holmes Braddock High School

Tuesday, January 24, 8 americium – 2 pm

3601 SW 147th Ave., Miami, FL 33185

Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience

Coral Glades High School

Thursday, January 26, 8 americium – 2 pm

2700 Sportsplex Dr., Coral Springs, FL 33065

Nimitz Virtual Reality Experience

Coral Gables Art Festival

Friday, November 18, 10 americium – 4 pm

355 Alhambra Cir., Coral Gables, FL

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