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Video games train new miners in Peru | CNET News.comSeptember 15th, 2007 |
Games continue to creep into the oddest places. 
I suspect that one of the major applications is going to be something we really didn’t suspect at all, like telephone sanitizing.
Video games train new miners in Peru | CNET News.com
This, of course, actually sounds like fun. Check out the way Reuters talks about it:
The simulators require drivers to pass through timed obstacle courses in simulated mining pits, being careful to avoid wrecking multimillion-dollar rigs and causing the games to crash.
The driver’s cabin in the dump truck bounces over the rough road of mines, and some players enjoyed backing the truck up to a ravine and pulling a lever to dump the dirt load.
A little more breathlessness and you could see this selling on a console.
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