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The RC Virtual Pilot

VRRCPilotHeaderVirtual Reality glasses have been widely available for the personal computer for some years now and, whilst in their early days, the technology was known to be rather temperamental, the latest devices have come on in leaps and bounds as far as quality and reliability are concerned.

Perhaps, then, it was only a matter of time until someone had the bright idea of housing a camera in a remotely piloted aircraft so as to enable them to fly using these VR glasses from the vantage point of the aircraft’s cockpit.

And, as can be seen after the jump, a Canadian RC enthusiast has cleverly done just that.

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With a tiny camera mounted in the cockpit area of his RC aircraft, the operator can fly his plane from the perspective of a remote pilot whilst using the in-built motion sensors (housed in the glasses) to control the actual angle of the camera – which is mounted on a powered axis – so that his field of view from the plane moves in direct correlation to his head movements.

The bad news is that this is not available as a commercial product at the time of writing – though I strongly suspect it’s only a matter of time.

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