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Norwegian army driving armoured vehicle using Oculus Rift

submitted by Zawash

1 decade 1 week ago

Teknisk Ukeblad: The Norwegian Army is now trying Oculus Rift gaming glasses in Norwegian armoured vehicles.

The effect can best be described as sitting in a transparent vehicle.

Teknisk Ukeblad got to try out an early development version at the Rena test field with a prototype of Oculus Rift and the specially developed camera system.

With cameras positioned on both sides of the vehicle and the special glasses, the tank operators have a 360 degree view from the driver‘s seat, even with the hatches battened down.

13 Comments

Dumdeedum says...

Reminds me a bit of the Land Rover system shown at http://youtu.be/1OlqditIsoM where they project an image of the ground under the vehicle onto the bonnet (hood) so it looks transparent.

Moving this video to Zawash's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote the excellent use of technology.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter Zawash.

coolhund says...

Thats a huge advantage. I hope the gunner and commander also use it.
That would change tank warfare completely.

Awesome. And ingenious.

Hmm, for ingenious I think we need to think more like UAV..... so.... the dude is in the tank.... why? Impossible to control from a trailer 20 miles away?

Awesome. And ingenious.

oOPonyOo says...

You could then also incorporate a rear-facing driver's seat for less frontal impact injuries. Then we would be one step close to Captain Scarlet's SPV.

a periscope would be cheaper and more "real-time".

I wish this video had more actual footage from the system, showing what it would be like to use the system to look around the vehicle.

jokingly says...

What happens when you are trying to destroy a target and you get a friend request pop up?

jokingly says...

..But think of all the likes when you score a hit!!

What happens when you are trying to destroy a target and you get a friend request pop up?

"Would you like to share this killcam with your friends?"

..But think of all the likes when you score a hit!!

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