Re:U.S. Navy swapping $38K periscope joysticks for Xbox cont...
by MarkSummer on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:24PM
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All I have to say is that back in I worked for the Navy PEO IWS and every year they send out requests for individuals to submit concepts (i.e. needs) for warfighter capabilities for potential SBIR grants. I think it was about 2011 or so when the idea to work on changing out the common display system (CDS) with a COTS head up display and game controller (vuzix at the time, occulus hadn't really emerged yet) was proposed.
The idea was laughed off the screen.