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That looks awesome, I want to play X-Wing vs Tie Fighter in it or something a bit more up to date and similar:D
 
Very cool but very impractical I should think. Surely the same can be achieved with some very high specs virtual 3d headset/glasses attached with motion sensors like TrackIR? I believe the human field of view is @120 degrees with the rest of the @180 degrees view being peripheral vision and we only really see what we directly look at full focus. So being locked up inside that ball, you never going to see more then @30-40% at any one time, indeed you can move your head up and down but even then you can't see whats behind you. Not to mention my basement is a tad to small to have that kind of setup.

Edit: Just read the marketing bits, it is obviously mainly aimed at pilot training centers, even military pilot training it seems. Guess future pilots will have a ball to train in that and also, much of the future military aircraft are leaning more towards unmanned. With the pilot being on the ground and having this kind of technology to display where the unmanned aircraft is would improve its ability to fly it I should think.
 
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Soya said:
Very cool but very impractical I should think. Surely the same can be achieved with some very high specs virtual 3d headset/glasses attached with motion sensors like TrackIR? I believe the human field of view is @120 degrees with the rest of the @180 degrees view being peripheral vision and we only really see what we directly look at full focus. So being locked up inside that ball, you never going to see more then @30-40% at any one time, indeed you can move your head up and down but even then you can't see whats behind you. Not to mention my basement is a tad to small to have that kind of setup.

Edit: Just read the marketing bits, it is obviously mainly aimed at pilot training centers, even military pilot training it seems. Guess future pilots will have a ball to train in that and also, much of the future military aircraft are leaning more towards unmanned. With the pilot being on the ground and having this kind of technology to display where the unmanned aircraft is would improve its ability to fly it I should think.
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You didn't actually think this was for regular consumers for home use did you?

Did you watch the same video as I did? :p

Looks fantastic though, I can imagine not just flight sim games would be great to play in that thing too.
 
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