Students Face Virtual Active Shooters, Inmates, And More At This NJ University

William Paterson University in Wayne has rolled out a virtual reality training platform that drops criminal justice, social work, and sociology students into high-stakes scenarios: think active shooter situations, prison interactions, domestic violence calls, and confrontations with unethical officers. The WrapReality system is the same tech used to train actual public safety professionals, and WPU says it’s among the first universities in the country to weave it into a criminal justice curriculum.