View Single Post
  #8  
Old April 10th 14, 11:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
son_of_flubber
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,550
Default Who'll be first..

On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 11:39:21 AM UTC-4, Steve Leonard wrote:
On Saturday, April 5, 2014 9:15:25 AM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:


I would be eager to try a full immersion synthetic vision VR application in a sailplane. Something based on Occulus Rift or similar that would make the fuselage completely disappear and let me see above, below and behind.




Honestly? Do you really want to see and be seen like this?



:-)



http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/pottytruck.htm



With synthetic vision, it would surely be possible to render other people's glider's invisible or partly transparent, and you could render the pilot TSA style.

I'd prefer to see other people's gliders opaque and true to size, unless they were on a converging heading, in that case bright, flashing and bigger would be better.

VR goggles will one day give a glider pilot the vision of a hawk.