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When VR Shooters Meet Discrete Events: Training Security Policies Without Endless Human Trials

Opening — Why this matters now School security research lives in a permanent bind: the events we most need to understand are precisely the ones we cannot ethically or practically reproduce at scale. Real-world shooter data is sparse, incomplete, and morally costly. Virtual reality (VR) improves matters, but even VR-based human-subject experiments remain slow, expensive, and fundamentally non-iterative. ...

February 6, 2026 · 5 min · Zelina