The Osprey is the last line of defense against wildfires?

Why stop at 16?

Really good point about tanks and the disorientation through traversing; I never knew they had experimented with those designs.

Amazing potential. Thanks!

hehe, so its effectively the same principles as the Google Tango platform I use for some AR research. Seems so obvious in retrospect. Sheesh. Thanks for linking. :)

Since I know absolutely squat about being a fighter pilot - the extent of my knowledge is watching lots of movies and reading books growing up, a few years as a grunt, and reading this blog - how important is it still have an instant reaction time? I assumed that over-the-horizon technology allowed for a larger buffer…

Inertial systems... I thought there must be something, but I couldn’t imagine what form it could take. So this is mechanical? I’m guessing it’d need to be reset every time the pilot takes off so there is some kind of breadcrumb trail?

Good point. Pick up any battle rifle and the iron sights can be set to mechanical zero. I can’t imagine the infantry ever deciding that each soldier should have their very own custom aiming system, despite the near infinite number of advantages that it could have over iron sights.

I think there is an option 3: have a team organized that can handle specific roles and reports to someone making decisions. I suppose it depends on the UI for the pilot, but it sounds like too much information to sort through and make decisions all at once. Ideally only the most important tasks requiring human input…

There will always be things that Man can do that sensors and drones can’t.

360-degree stitching has been around for a while, it isn’t nearly as processing intensive as it used to be. But in this case, the entire 360 degree scene doesn’t have to be rendered, just the section that the pilot would be looking at. Rendering a live video feed also isn’t the same as rendering a live 3D field full…

That answers some suspicions I’ve had about the helmet’s AR integration. It seems very disorienting and potentially nausea inducing to be off-axis like that. I haven’t seen any other viable AR system where the camera inputs aren’t as close to the human eye as possible in order to prevent those problems. It looks like…

Wouldn’t the F-35 be susceptible to the same issues insofar as jamming? How would the pilot know their location or even communicate with home?

I haven’t read about the Link 16 or UCLASS, so thanks for the links. I’m curious to know though, if the Link 16 hasn’t been adopted for the F-22 to send (only receive, according to that link - because it would give away the F-22's position), then isn’t it a fair estimate that it might take at least another 6 years for…

I don’t think the F-35 is designed for dog fighting; all of the sensors are for over the horizon. In that case, a 1.5 second delay doesn’t seem like a big deal. I can see the justification for the pilot in just being able to have better situational awareness, but where I get lost is given how much of that situational…

Honest question: how does a point-to-point communication system on an F-35 work differently than one through a satellite?

I was wondering the same thing about the GPS in the F-35... I’m assuming there is compass pointing towards magnetic north to fall back on?

hmmm... to me, that begs the question - which I realize is moot and we’ll never really know - whether we could have built a better communication network for drones had we invested half of the time, money and resources that were expended on the F-35.

I understand the F-35 is more of a wrapper around an intelligent & mobile weapon system, where the pilot essentially acts as a wizard sys-admin, but it seems like there would be far too many parts moving for any single person to be able to keep up with. So what really is the distinct advantage that the F-35 is…

Was a paratrooper for a few years and now working on a phd in augmented reality; I’d love to get my hands on one of these helmets. I have so many questions about what is actually shown to the pilot and how the data is gathered and rendered.