Oculus Rift is the latest weapon in the Defense Department's fight against cyberattacks

The military’s army of hackers may soon use Oculus Rift to fight the cyberwar.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), basically the Q to the U.S. Department of Defense’s James Bond, is experimenting with using the Oculus Rift headset (as Wired first reported). It wants its crew of high-tech computer soldiers to explore networks in three dimensions, and it’s using the virtual-reality device to put them right in the middle of these simulations. This may help the white-hats better see security risks in friendly computer systems or exploits in enemy networks.