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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by darkpuma on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:14PM (#20171295)
> "VR helmets,"

AR, not VR, right? Pretty sure they were doing that in helicopters years ago. Doesn't the Apache have a 30mm autocannon slaved to the pilot's helmet display, such that it shoots where the pilot looks? I'm no helmet geek, but I think that stuff came out in the 80s.

I suppose the F-35's implementation is cooler, on account of being newer, but it doesn't seem earth shattering to me.

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by TeMPOraL on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:01AM (#20173543)
> AR, not VR, right?

Probably depends, but the way I see it, AR is when you pass the world through but draw stuff on top of it, whereas VR means replacing what you see wholesale. So for instance, a HUD is AR, and F-35 helmet is VR.

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by baud147258 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:31AM (#20175214)
> Apache have a 30mm autocannon slaved to the pilot's helmet display, such that it shoots where the pilot looks

The same system also exists for the Eurocopter Tiger

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by whenchamenia on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:18AM (#20173273)
Sure, they are both ar. But one is about as nice as a virtual boy, while the f35 is an occulous. Huge differince in tech.
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