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P.S. Although that would represent more mass to accelerate/decelerate with head movements...
So is selling stuff before it actually exists the new norm? I get it when you have a kick-starter, but when you're already established doesn't it come off as a bit shady and scummy? Are they low on money and desperately need to cash-in asap? Are they worried their product will be poorly reviewed b/c they aren't confident in the quality - so they're trying to lock-in buyers? EDIT: I'm just putting out the question "Wh…
Example: http://www.retrotrader.com/catalog/product_info.php?products...
If consumers want to be dumb and ignore everything that states very clearly that this is a product for developers, that's their business.
So is selling stuff before it actually exists the new norm? I get it when you have a kick-starter, but when you're already established doesn't it come off as a bit shady and scummy? Are they low on money and desperately need to cash-in asap? Are they worried their product will be poorly reviewed b/c they aren't confident in the quality - so they're trying to lock-in buyers? EDIT: I'm just putting out the question "Wh…
A (likely terrible) idea that just occurred to me- How cool would it be to use a VR headset to help you navigate a vehicle? Yes, I mean to say wearing this while driving essentially. Given a fast/good enough sensor/input system, you could scan your environment, know the dimensions of your vehicle (I'm mainly thinking boats and huge trucks here) and be able to "see through" massive blind spots on your vehicle to enabl…
The challenges there are mostly around downlink and latency, with analog video being the standard for its favorable latency and signal fade characteristics.
Many flyers do add a few more channels to their existing radio control systems in order to use camera gimbals with head tracking to allow the true "first person" experience you suggest.
Obviously for a real vehicle something like modern in-dash parking systems using stitched camera views to build an immersive environment would be more practical than a gimbal, although software latency is occasionally harder to control than that of hardware.
A (likely terrible) idea that just occurred to me- How cool would it be to use a VR headset to help you navigate a vehicle? Yes, I mean to say wearing this while driving essentially. Given a fast/good enough sensor/input system, you could scan your environment, know the dimensions of your vehicle (I'm mainly thinking boats and huge trucks here) and be able to "see through" massive blind spots on your vehicle to enabl…
My understanding is that this "see through the vehicle" capability is built into at least some helmet-HUD/Helicopter combinations that the military has. If it suffices for an attack helicopter, I'd say that the idea probably has serious potential for automobiles as well. I wouldn't expect to see it come to standard consumer cars yet, but for commercial drivers (particularly truck drivers who have massive blindspots)…
A (likely terrible) idea that just occurred to me- How cool would it be to use a VR headset to help you navigate a vehicle? Yes, I mean to say wearing this while driving essentially. Given a fast/good enough sensor/input system, you could scan your environment, know the dimensions of your vehicle (I'm mainly thinking boats and huge trucks here) and be able to "see through" massive blind spots on your vehicle to enabl…
Meta is trying to achieve this through their AR glasses, which Steve Mann is part of.
Has anyone used it for coding?
Things are about to get crazy.