FPV
Last year, I wrote:
Well, meet those 20 year-olds. They're the leading wave in the new "sport" of first-person drone racing. They strap on virtual reality goggles and fly drones at breakneck speeds from a first person viewpoint, (FPV). For most people it would be disorienting and nausea-inducing, but these kids are having so much fun they're forgetting to get sick. The first generation of drone fighter jocks are already training themselves, though they may not realize it just yet. If that sounds unlikely to you, it's worth remembering that the Nazi fighter aces of WWII were all former members of the model aircraft clubs which were wildly popular with German boys of the 1920s and '30s.
If you're prone to motion sickness, you might want to take a pass on this video and just read the article instead.
If "practical warfighting" means a 20 year-old kid with hyperfast reactions who grew up playing RTS games can control a dozen drones at once, fight through an enemy CAP and wipe out a logistics dump while he's sipping Mountain Dew and popping zits, then you must learn to deal with that reality
Well, meet those 20 year-olds. They're the leading wave in the new "sport" of first-person drone racing. They strap on virtual reality goggles and fly drones at breakneck speeds from a first person viewpoint, (FPV). For most people it would be disorienting and nausea-inducing, but these kids are having so much fun they're forgetting to get sick. The first generation of drone fighter jocks are already training themselves, though they may not realize it just yet. If that sounds unlikely to you, it's worth remembering that the Nazi fighter aces of WWII were all former members of the model aircraft clubs which were wildly popular with German boys of the 1920s and '30s.
If you're prone to motion sickness, you might want to take a pass on this video and just read the article instead.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 09:29
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