Virtual Reality Visor Could Help Protect Drivers
As part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Ground-X Vehicles technology program, the company demonstrated a visor that provides the driver with a 160-degree virtual reality image of outside terrain. Drivers can then operate in an enclosed, windowless vehicle, “which would then allow the driver to be safe, protected from snipers, shrapnel or anything else,” Brian Aleksa, senior technical manager of research and development at the company, said in an interview.
One important feature of the visor is the “snap algorithm,” Aleska explained, meaning that the user is unconsciously switching his view among multiple cameras as he turns his head.
“You turn your head from left to right and you’re actually looking through different camera pairs, different high [resolution] high-definition cameras,” he said. “You don’t even . . . perceive you’re switching from one pair to the next, so it’s really like a natural vision system.”
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