Google AR Glasses?....out of date.

Xordium said:
Edit: I should say motion sickness would also potentially treated by medicines that would cause drowsiness, hallucinations and other things you wouldn't want a soldier to have.
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You don't always need medication to combat motion sickness or nausea though...whatever the science might say, I found Seabands (or equivalent) to work and they have no real side effects.

Would it not depend on the individual anyway, for example not all soldiers can be snipers for example because they get nausea due to the disorientation that can happen when spending long periods looking through some scopes, and the spotters can also suffer from the same with Binos etc.....A sniper would be more likely to acclimatise to such a system surely?
 
Castiel said:
You don't always need medication to combat motion sickness or nausea though...whatever the science might say, I found Seabands (or equivalent) to work and they have no real side effects.

Would it not depend on the individual anyway, for example not all soldiers can be snipers for example because they get nausea due to the disorientation that can happen when spending long periods looking through some scopes, and the spotters can also suffer from the same with Binos etc.....A sniper would be more likely to acclimatise to such a system surely?
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Motion sickness works differently depending on what is causing it and works differently to other kinds of nausea. Therefore, you can't give the usual stuff you would and where Seabands and ginger work quite often say with a Lynx that is bouncing around like a bucking stallion the induction caused by such a system acts on a different centre and more directly.

And yes like I said earlier there is a strong genetic component here and the Chinese would be in big trouble. And yes following on from my earlier sniper example it would be the same thing but more pronounced. But a sniper does not have to use their peripheral vision to the extent someone using these glasses would. Displayed information would cause distraction away from the brains inclination to focus on movement.

For what they want to do I could think of plenty of better ways to achieve that goal. Plus what's wrong with the traditional methods? I can range very accurately just from growing up in the mountains as a kid and I'd wager someone wearing such fancy goggles constantly displaying information and therefore drawing the eye's attention would not notice the slight movements of someone familiar with moving in the mountains. In which case you'd need overhead imaging support and if you have that well you have your range to a metre anyway and plenty of people to tell that you. Besides you can get iPhone apps now that will take in windage and range and work everything out for you. I just wonder whether when things go wrong on longer term engagements and all this kit breaks then how the hell are they going to do this. And if this kit is for in and out in 5min jobs, which I suspect it is, then the people can work all this sort of stuff out anyways. You can just see the sales pitch on this was more like a videogame promo than anything else but most of them are I guess.
 
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