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FishEyeHUD
Heads Up Display incorporating fisheye lenses for fighter pilots | |
Pilots need to be aware of the entire space around them, hence the high seating position and bubble cockpit canopy. Vision coverage could be maximised (to 100% continuous sky coverage) by using fisheye lenses from high definition cameras, one to each eye, for either above/below or fore/aft the aircraft.
Seems difficult for the pilot to track, but the human brain is surprisingly good at adapting to different kinds of input - e.g. the experiment in living with an inverted image.
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This depends on what you think is the easier task: getting a human pilot to see like a fish, or training a fish to fly a plane. |
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you could test the theory looking through two periscopes with fish eye lenses looking to the left and right |
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Just outfit infants with these lenses for their entire life and teach them to be fighter pilots. Easy! Problem solved. |
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I recently bought a new pair of prescription sunglasses. When I first put them on, I couldn't even resolve what I was seeing into a single image, and was seriously thinking of taking them back. A couple of hours of wear, and now I can even drive in them. |
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Where do I sign up to drive a helicopter? |
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who said anything about a helicopter? |
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Anyway, don't Apache helicopters already have some weird system requiring one eye to be looking at a data overlay while the other actually looks at the ground? Or did I just get that from some stupid film? |
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