DIY project merges VR goggles with RC airplane
By Cyrus Farivar 
posted Sep 27th 2006 6:05AM
posted Sep 27th 2006 6:05AM
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posted Sep 27th 2006 6:05AM
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I want them now. Can somebody tell me the websites where I can buy them now?
If you find out where you can get one, please let me know.
I love this! I have to have one! - This could help television programmes and films so much it's unbelieveable - this guy has to go into production and mass produce these things!
I know I'd buy one
Nice
The implications for this are quite amazing actually. Especially in a military sense.
You guys are at least a few days late on this one.
This has been around for a while, have a look at this SWISS website.
Lots of videos too.
http://www.rc-tech.ch/web/index.php?lang=en
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QhckPSzrbI
No infringement intended, was a great video but seemed lost to the net, and I had it on the hard drive..
jt
better late than never
cool goggles. horrid music.
i misreead the title and thought google was doing RC & VR lol
dumbass...
I agree 100% Jon McCartie
"cool goggles. horrid music."
WTF is that. Why didn't they mount the camera to the bottom of the plane so that you can get a good view of something else than the cockpit?
Holy crap that's awesome.
Phone Nerd: Mounting the pan/tilt camera on the bottom would unfortunately crush the mechanism when the plane belly-lands. Personally, I think that mounting the camera in the cockpit gives you a better sense of the orientation of the plane because you're not just flying an R/C plane, this allows you to become an actual pilot IN the cockpit and the occlusion of the airframe gives you a real sense of what real pilots experience. Also, you could put functioning instrumentation in the cockpit such as airspeed, battery power, heading, etc. and just look down at them just like a real pilot. I'm not sure how difficult/expensive it would be to incorporate such information into the video data stream like the military UAVs.
Man, I bet this thing will have you puking in no time. I totally love RC planes and putting cameras on them but I'd never be able to handle the VR headset. Note that the "look around" function causes even more inner ear/brain conflicting signals which will have those of use who suffer motion sicknes dropped to our knees in double time.
Don't get me wrong though, it's friggin' awesome!
This really is quite amazing. Being a student pilot myself I must say that this would be great fun and practice at a fraction of the cost of renting a real plane. It is by no means a substitute, but many can't afford to rent a plane and this gives them the ability to experience something so few get to experience.
Very phenominal! I most definately want one!
Woa that is really sweet. I want these goggles. That music sucked bad though.
I wonder what the range is on the remote and video transmitter.
It would suck to have an in-the-cockpit view of the plane spiraling out of control into the ground.
Wow, very cool. I thought the music went with the whole flying like a bird on the wind thing and found it tolerable.
Coolest thing ever!
That's the freaking theme song from "Enterprise". YUCK!
Cool idea with the pan/tilt. I had a cam static mounted in an RC Heli that was pretty fun. The pan/tilt feature reminds me of flying a flight sim with Natural Point's TrackIR head tracking.
This is way better than my hacked CVS camera on a kite. I have always wanted to learn to fly RC aircraft. Now I have a reason.
As a 1930's born nerd, I thought that I had seen it all when the Spitfire first flew. But now I really have seen it all.I give the backing 8.