Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift

[wraggster]

"Look at Norway, where the Army has started using Oculus Rift to drive tanks with increased visibility (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/norway-is-gamifying-warfare-by-driving-tanks-with-oculus-rift), according to the Norwegian TV station tu.no (http://www.tu.no/tutv/forsvar/2014/05/05/norwegian-army-driving-armoured-vehicle-using-oculus-rift). Four VR cameras are mounted on the sides of the tank to give the soldier inside donning the headset a full 360 degree view of what's going on outside, like X-ray vision. Using cameras to 'see through' a vehicle isn't a new concept; when the hatches are down tanks are notoriously hard to navigate. But the Oculus Rift dev kit is just a fraction of the price of traditional 360-degree camera equipment: Lockheed Martin's F-35 helmet for pilots (http://defensetech.org/2011/10/13/f-35-pilots-new-helmet/) can cost tens of thousands of dollars."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/05/06/0127252/norway-is-gamifying-warfare-by-driving-tanks-with-oculus-rift