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Looks from the videos that it shows on a small section top right of one eye.
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it looks like it completely fills your vision, and could easily pop up with a photo or notification at an awkward moment.
It looks like a brilliant product, and will revolutionise mobile phones and social networking, I'm sure. Not sure it will do general aviation any good, and noone is saying at this point that it is even aimed at that. How would it integrate with a TCAS system?
This product seems to be designed for capturing your amazing adventures to share with your friends in a handsfree manner, and also to connect to a phone so you can easily make calls or share videos and receive facebook notifications or whatever.
There are already HUD displays on military and civilian aircraft, but these will have been designed, tested and certified for this particular use. I think what the OP was getting at is that wearing this device - which is not designed or certified for this purpose - could be a bit distracting, and possibly even block out a full field of vision when flying an aircraft.
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This doesn't look like it would be any use to aviation whatsoever. Another tech gimmick aimed at the moronic mobile phone, game playing market of 12yr old brain dead.
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But from the marketing photos, a big pop up will be displayed in the centre of your field of vision, with options like sending a message, or displaying a message you have just received. It must therefore be enough of an image to read text, even though it is coming from an eyeglass only partially covering one eye.
People on here seem to be talking as if this is a product aimed at aviation, syncing to TCAS or whatever. It just isn't, it's an extension of your mobile phone display with a camera fitted.
It looks a great device, could well see people wearing them every day. Obviously this is the first edition, and will modify over time into something which could well be great, but still a little distracting wearing an uncertified HUD while flying aerobatics, as they seem to have paid someone to do for their promotional video.
To be honest, the whole thing is just making me think of the Black Mirror episode where people have a chip that records everything they see, and then jealous partners can trawl through the material. May well have been an omen...
I'd also say this thread probably belongs in Jet Blast, since the only aviation content was about 7 seconds of someone flying a plane in the promotional video.
People on here seem to be talking as if this is a product aimed at aviation, syncing to TCAS or whatever. It just isn't, it's an extension of your mobile phone display with a camera fitted.
It looks a great device, could well see people wearing them every day. Obviously this is the first edition, and will modify over time into something which could well be great, but still a little distracting wearing an uncertified HUD while flying aerobatics, as they seem to have paid someone to do for their promotional video.
To be honest, the whole thing is just making me think of the Black Mirror episode where people have a chip that records everything they see, and then jealous partners can trawl through the material. May well have been an omen...
I'd also say this thread probably belongs in Jet Blast, since the only aviation content was about 7 seconds of someone flying a plane in the promotional video.
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I love it
This doesn't look like it would be any use to aviation whatsoever. Another tech gimmick aimed at the moronic mobile phone, game playing market of 12yr old brain dead.
Absolutely love it!
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As a pompey fan, you will not need a lobotomy of course but the idea of yet another labour making device getting between me and my flying makes me shudder. I don't want to be flying a little Airbus; all the fun is looking out of the window.
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Thinking of looking out the window - I was thinking whether a device like this (or perhaps a fixed camera of some sort) could be used to see and avoid. Could a computer be "looking out" for you too?
In thinking about this - two options - analysing a series of still pictures - perhaps taken every few seconds. The system would need to analyse the pics, looking for planes. I suspect it would struggle to pick out planes relative to the ground and would have difficulty working out whether something was small or just far away, unless it had some sort of array of cameras and so was able to build up a 3d version of the outside world.
The alternative is to analyse a video feed, looking for any objects that are moving relative to the ground around you - which would presumably be other aircraft. This would probably have difficulty spotting the "constant relative bearing / constant danger" situations - just as humans do. Again - without multiple cameras / 3D its going to pickup a lot of sea gulls...
In either case it would need to describe the plane / location to the pilot for the pilot to see it themselves and decide on a conflict, and any action required.
However - I've just looked up the human eye's performance compared to a camera (here). To be close to the human eye's performance, huge resolution cameras would be required - which would mean huge amounts of computing power to process the images / videos.
So we're probably back to using the Mark 1 eyeball...
In thinking about this - two options - analysing a series of still pictures - perhaps taken every few seconds. The system would need to analyse the pics, looking for planes. I suspect it would struggle to pick out planes relative to the ground and would have difficulty working out whether something was small or just far away, unless it had some sort of array of cameras and so was able to build up a 3d version of the outside world.
The alternative is to analyse a video feed, looking for any objects that are moving relative to the ground around you - which would presumably be other aircraft. This would probably have difficulty spotting the "constant relative bearing / constant danger" situations - just as humans do. Again - without multiple cameras / 3D its going to pickup a lot of sea gulls...
In either case it would need to describe the plane / location to the pilot for the pilot to see it themselves and decide on a conflict, and any action required.
However - I've just looked up the human eye's performance compared to a camera (here). To be close to the human eye's performance, huge resolution cameras would be required - which would mean huge amounts of computing power to process the images / videos.
So we're probably back to using the Mark 1 eyeball...
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Much more worrying than any aviation concerns is the horror scenario of goons wearing these devices in road vehicles (of any variety). The dangers of mobile phone use whilst driving will pale into insignificance.
