Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift

Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "Look at Norway, where the Army has started using Oculus Rift to drive tanks with increased visibility, according to the Norwegian TV station tu.no. 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 can cost tens of thousands of dollars."

Re:F-35

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe the F35 flies faster than a tank and needs a stricter latency.

With sufficient thrust, the tank flies just fine

Re:Why is the soldier inside?

[drainbramage]

Union requirement.
Rules are rules.