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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on June 13, 2008, 11:43:28 PM

Title: First person R/C car lol
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 13, 2008, 11:43:28 PM: (http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/fatshark_buggy_set.jpg)

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/13/first-person-r-c-car-puts-you-in-the-drivers-seat/

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A company called Fat Shark offers one of the coolest R/C cars we've ever seen. How so? Its system has a camera mounted in the car's driver's seat. It transmits its signal wirelessly to VR-style goggles that give the operator a first-person view of the terrain ahead of the car itself. That alone would be neat, but the camera has pan and tilt functionality that the driver controls by simply moving his or her head to "look" in each direction. The video pasted after the jump gives you a taste of what what you'd see if the glasses were strapped to your noggin. Granted, you'll look like a dork with the antenna-festooned goggles on, but at least you'll be having fun. Fat Shark also sells the camera and components separately, so you can use them on model airplanes, too. Thanks for the tip, David!

[youtube=425,350]0ETLtKc0_5c[/youtube]

:lol

Awesome.
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: crimsondynamics on June 13, 2008, 11:47:46 PM: I've always wanted something like this, but technology never caught up. Until now! Take that, Dirt!
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 13, 2008, 11:52:13 PM: If you drive it into traffic YOU DIE FOR REAL
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Post by: muckhole on June 13, 2008, 11:53:39 PM: That is absolutely amazing. The places I shall infiltrate!
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: Bildi on June 14, 2008, 02:33:06 AM: Wow, that's awesome.

As a bonus, you look really super-cool with those VR goggles. 8)
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: Crushed on June 14, 2008, 02:34:44 AM: I remember seeing these kinds of things online years ago for hundreds of dollars, and they only had B/W video and streamed to a monitor. I always wanted one.

There were even remote-control planes and helicopters and boats with attached cameras. Now THAT'S badass. 8)
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: AdmiralViscen on June 14, 2008, 10:24:13 AM: That would fuckin rule
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: duckman2000 on June 14, 2008, 10:33:29 AM: I'll buy a shitload of these, although I assume competition will make pricing and quality healthier.

Now make an R/C helicopter work with this, add an additional function for dropping a paintgrenade, and we're on!
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: abrader on June 14, 2008, 10:45:05 AM: will buy!
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: abrader on June 14, 2008, 10:49:33 AM: how much is that bad boy and 2 where is my FPV RC heli?
Title: Re: First person R/C car lol
Post by: Scurvy Stan on June 14, 2008, 06:29:08 PM: Car would be kinda boring. A helicopter though! Oh baby, think of the trouble you could cause with that!