Oculus Rift Headset for Driving Tanks, in development

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The Norwegian Army‘s Combat Lab in cooperation with a civilian firm is developing an Oculus Rift system for driving tanks and armored vehicles.

This looks like a really interesting system, and anyone who has tried to drive an armored vehicle with the hatch closed using only periscopes knows that it's not easy, so a system like this could help a lot.

Here's an article about it in English:

Norwegian Army trials Oculus Rift to drive TANKS: Mounted cameras make vehicles appear transparent so soldiers can stay under the hatch

Cameras mounted around the vehicle film its surroundings
This live footage is fed to the driver through the Oculus Rift headset
When a driver looks left, they looks through the left camera, and vice versa
This creates the effect that the armoured tank is ‘transparent’
It means soldiers can remain below the hatch and protected from gunfire
Augmented reality software used is designed by Augmenti in Trondheim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-appear-transparent-soldiers-stay-hatch.html

You can also find a video about it here.
It's in Norwegian, but I'll try to find a texted version of it as well

http://www.tu.no/it/2014/04/15/se-haren-kjore-stridsvogn-med-oculus-rift
 
Found one with english text here now:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eCeuq36zHo"]ОКУЛУС РИФТ: контроль танка Норвежской армии - Oculus rift and Norwegian Army - YouTube[/ame]
 
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