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Remote Vision Through a Virtual Reality Headset (Video)
Add some material-handling devices and you'd have software-controlled Waldos, first described by Robert A. Heinlein in the 1942 short story titled Waldo. So while the idea of a pair of artificial eyes you control by moving your head (while looking at the area around the artificial eyes, even if it's in orbit), sounds like futuristic fun, especially if you use an Oculus Virtual Reality device instead of an LED screen, it not only hasn't caught up with science fiction, but is a fair ways behind science fact. Still, the idea of being able to control a vision system deep under the sea or in orbit around Saturn is certainly interesting in and of itself. (Alternate Video Link)
bla bla bla Oculus...
'Remote Vision' the term almost sounds like from a patent.
...this is pretty cool, but I'd rather prefer to control a QuadCopter with the Oculus rift!
Oh wait (searches)...it's done already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Hm, wonder if I can play GTA 5 etc... with the oculus rift (googles again before pressing preview)
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06...
Hm...not quite conclusive, but we're getting there...
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On Saturn, really?
That will have a latency of 2,5 hours already.
The idea that one can compare artists and manual laborers in the same sentence is ridiculous. Don't believe me? Want to hit that -1 moderation button? Go ask the same question in any artists' colony. Anyone can learn plumbing, it isn't even an art, it is a trade. Ideas like Heinleins' are simply outdated.
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It turns out that for the vast majority of tasks a 2D remote camera is just fine and controlling it with a mouse or keyboard is ok too. There are very few tasks where the added cost of a 3D head mounted display with a head tracker is worth it.
Wouldn't it be easier to have a video stream which contains the full sphere of video data at all times, and use the client-headset position to display a subset of that data?
That would allow infinite numbers of people to share the same virtual experience rather than create a silly 1-to-1 mechanized connection.
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There's conventions across the country I wanted to visit but couldn't, so I started working on a telepresence bot. Connects to the internet with wifi, has two cameras on its head, and is designed to have servos with head tracking so it can look around. With a decent battery and some friends in attendance you can make it truly mobile, have someone bring "you" to panels and stuff. Add microphone+speakers and make it adorable and it's an instant win.
(The head tracking works even through lag by reading from cameras and painting the output onto the inside of a sphere with the viewer at the origin; the viewer also looks from inside the sphere, but isn't tied to the actual camera angle. The bot head chases the direction you're looking in, but even if it's slow, the picture doesn't jerk around too bad...you just have black regions where it's not actually pointed at the moment.)
The algorithms are solid, but servos are not easy to do right when you don't have a good mechanical background, and the first gen Rift isn't the greatest piece of hardware so it's still a work in progress, but...yeah it's a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Fatshark goggles and an RC helicopter.
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Could this be added to Soldier helmets and/or vehicles to add another set of eyes? Someone to watch your back? Seems like a good use to me.
The problem happens when you lose one of them.
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I've seen this before, in the movie Sleep Dealer. The U.S. / Mexico border is completely sealed, but folks in the U.S. still want cheap labor. So: they hire Mexicans, working in Mexico, as drone operators.
How are we still giving this right-wing extremist good publicity? Is it because he had a few good books 70 years ago? Seriously...look at what he actually said! It's all like this:
The idea that one can compare artists and manual laborers in the same sentence is ridiculous. Don't believe me? Want to hit that -1 moderation button? Go ask the same question in any artists' colony. Anyone can learn plumbing, it isn't even an art, it is a trade. Ideas like Heinleins' are simply outdated.
Way to miss the point, which is more along the lines of "we can't have a society where everyone is an artist, someone has to make sure that the sinks and toilets keep working."
Anyone can learn art, it isn't even a trade.
Try to do your own plumbing. If something goes wrong and you're not a licensed plumber, insurances won't cover your damages.
Seriously? ANYONE can "be" an artist. At least a plumber requires training and knowledge.
There's a problem with self-driving cars (insurance, legal, ...).
There's cheap labor available.
Just let your "self driving" car be operated by someone off-shore.
Perfect.
The problem with spherical video in virtual reality is that there is no positional tracking. But guess what, in space that doesn't matter! Your brain can't tell the different between being 30,000 miles from saturn and being 6 inches closer, so a static point in space is perfectly fine.
When someone brings hi-res spherical video back from space, we will truly be able to feel what it's like to float above the earth.
It will be awesome.
Telepresence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence)?
Why do I feel that whenever Oculus Rift is mentioned, the project has to be new and ground breaking, something that has never been done before, right? Never mind the decades of previous work and existing industrial applications (like telesurgery or underwater ROV operation ...).
By then, they will be able to save a copy of your mind as an AI, so no latency....
How are we still giving this right-wing extremist good publicity? Is it because he had a few good books 70 years ago? Seriously...look at what he actually said! It's all like this:
The idea that one can compare artists and manual laborers in the same sentence is ridiculous. Don't believe me? Want to hit that -1 moderation button? Go ask the same question in any artists' colony. Anyone can learn plumbing, it isn't even an art, it is a trade. Ideas like Heinleins' are simply outdated.
The difficulty of a task and the value of completing the task aren't intrinsically related.
Plumbing saves lives, art doesn't.
Seriously the death toll from poor sanitation in a place with the population density of a modern city would be insane without plumbing.
The light speed delay to Saturn (from Earth) would make it silly to even try. Even a 1.5 second delay to the Moon disorents most people to unusability.
That sounds great! I guess I'll just go down to my local BestBuy and pick up one of these Oculus Rifts....oh wait.
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When attempting to work with Waldos the timing of one's actions gets complicated. Any time over a second delay gets very problematic. The engineers moving the Mars scouts have to think ahead and give commands to the scouts and let them wander toward a destination, but the path, speed, etc. must be handeled locally. With minutes and hours delay it's imposible to use waldos. One would have to issue a series of instructions and delimitations to ensure that what one needs to accomplish actually gets done, then let the local machine/computer decypher the instructions and figure out how to perform them. If one attempted to use Waldos at the bottom of the sea, or outer space, the time delay would very problematic. This all presumes that electrons travel at a limited speed. If one develops FTL communications then Waldos at a distance would be viable.