Literally See the 360-degree World Around You

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In what looks much like something out of Robocop, a French team has developed technology that will enable the FlyVIZ system wearer a full 360 degree view of the world. While still in testing after two years of development, the prototype is showing great promise.

Surprisingly, continued use of the headset doesn’t seem to result in any ill effects for the wearer, with no reports so far from testers of any kind of nausea, motion sickness, or visual fatigue.
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Surprisingly, continued use of the headset doesn’t seem to result in any ill effects for the wearer, with no reports so far from testers of any kind of nausea, motion sickness, or visual fatigue.
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How about neck pain from that gargantuan contraption? :p
 
This seems like a pretty useless waste of time. Like the comment said, just turn your head around. I see no real world uses for this other than to look like an even bigger superdork.
 
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BoogerBomb said:
This seems like a pretty useless waste of time. Like the comment said, just turn your head around. I see no real world uses for this other than to look like an even bigger superdork.
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I think this is super cool. If they eventually get the device down to the size of shades would you still not give them a try.

potential advantages

*Eliminate blind spots while driving, gain awareness of every car around you without taking of eyes off the road to check mirrors.

* avoid having people sneek up on you, could be useful for soliders

* enjoy more of the domed imax screens

*check out hotties at any angle without facing them.
 
Wouldn't be useful to soldiers.

You'll notice that virtually every predator species on the planet has forward facing binocular vision, because overlapping field of view with the eyes and the depth perception that affords are excellent for tracking down prey and making a kill. And this goes all the way back to the T-Rex.

Even among spiders, which are notorious for the poor vision and lack of reliance on it, the jumping spiders that actually hunt in daylight and rely on their vision use their two useful unusually large eyes in a forward facing binocular arrangement, with the 360o other eyes not able to detect much more than a vague blur and contrast of light and dark.

All the creatures that do have a very wild field of view are prey animals, that basically just detect the movement and run away. IOW, wear one of these 360o cams and you're a sheep, not a wolf! ;)
 
Ducman69 said:
Wouldn't be useful to soldiers.

You'll notice that virtually every predator species on the planet has forward facing binocular vision, because overlapping field of view with the eyes and the depth perception that affords are excellent for tracking down prey and making a kill. And this goes all the way back to the T-Rex.

Even among spiders, which are notorious for the poor vision and lack of reliance on it, the jumping spiders that actually hunt in daylight and rely on their vision use their two useful unusually large eyes in a forward facing binocular arrangement, with the 360o other eyes not able to detect much more than a vague blur and contrast of light and dark.

All the creatures that do have a very wild field of view are prey animals, that basically just detect the movement and run away. IOW, wear one of these 360o cams and you're a sheep, not a wolf! ;)
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Good and valid point. Since we still only have two eyes, it would make us much like cows, with side facing eyes.

As a weird side thought, wouldn't it be possible to have a 3 eye creature with eyes 120 degrees apart that could have both 360 vision and depth perception? "depth perception" is just overlapping fields of view that give positional info.

I think bilateral symmetry has prevented this from arising in nature, but it is a cool thought eh?
 
cdig said:
I think this is super cool. If they eventually get the device down to the size of shades would you still not give them a try.

potential advantages

*Eliminate blind spots while driving, gain awareness of every car around you without taking of eyes off the road to check mirrors.

* avoid having people sneek up on you, could be useful for soliders

* enjoy more of the domed imax screens

*check out hotties at any angle without facing them.
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Do you understand how pointless wearing a display on your face to go to a domed theater is?
 
cdig said:
Good and valid point. Since we still only have two eyes, it would make us much like cows, with side facing eyes.

As a weird side thought, wouldn't it be possible to have a 3 eye creature with eyes 120 degrees apart that could have both 360 vision and depth perception? "depth perception" is just overlapping fields of view that give positional info.

I think bilateral symmetry has prevented this from arising in nature, but it is a cool thought eh?
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Your math is off, but I follow. You would need a wider field of vision for each eye. 360/3 = 120, there is no room for overlap between the eyes while maintaining 360 degree vision. You'd need something like 180 degrees per eye providing 60 degrees of overlap between each pair.
 
Cantonious said:
Your math is off, but I follow. You would need a wider field of vision for each eye. 360/3 = 120, there is no room for overlap between the eyes while maintaining 360 degree vision. You'd need something like 180 degrees per eye providing 60 degrees of overlap between each pair.
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How would you know which way you were facing?
 
cdig said:
As a weird side thought, wouldn't it be possible to have a 3 eye creature with eyes 120 degrees apart that could have both 360 vision and depth perception? "depth perception" is just overlapping fields of view that give positional info.

I think bilateral symmetry has prevented this from arising in nature, but it is a cool thought eh?
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Problem is that you don't just have depth perception or no depth perception like an on-off switch, but varying degrees of depth perception quality.

Two eyes with a LOT of overlap will have the greatest range and quality of depth perception and with dual-photo receptors on a particular point you have increased image clarity. As an example, step back from your computer monitor a bit and try to read with just your left or just your right eye, and then compare it to reading with both. Both eyes together should produce a crisper image.

So a pigeon has damn near 360o vision, but it'd never be able to fixate on a target as well as an owl or eagle with big-time overlap forward facing eyes. But technically the pigeon does have depth perception in that it can bob its head fast which provides two images for the brain to contrast... its just not as good.

More eyes should be better, but complex eyes are likely just too expensive for that to occur in nature aside from the simple eyes of say a spider.
 
could be use full for FPV flying and drones right now the law states you must "see and avoid"
the issue is you cant see 360 around you
well now you can
 
This is just in: "You can rotate your body and see 360º"
 
Of course news article doesn't provide video or at least a picture of what the user sees.
 
BoogerBomb said:
This seems like a pretty useless waste of time. Like the comment said, just turn your head around. I see no real world uses for this other than to look like an even bigger superdork.
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Wow. That's an impressive lack of foresight.
 
leSLIe said:
This is just in: "You can rotate your body and see 360º"
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And yet people don't look to their sides when driving through intersections. Hell many people don't even look forward anymore, they're too busy tweeting something stupid.
 
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