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I am quite amused by the idea that you think someone in a spacecraft of any kind would gain situational awareness by looking out a window using the Mk 1 eyeball
by evgen 7y ago
I am quite amused by the idea that you think someone in a spacecraft of any kind would gain situational awareness by looking out a window using the Mk 1 eyeball.
- Causality1 7y agoWhich begs the question, why have cockpit glass at all instead of immersing the "pilot" in a virtual environment with the most useful data available? Maybe something resembling, say, a chase cam?
- indigochill 7y agoIf we were going for "hard sci fi", you'd need some kind of drone or something to provide the chase cam perspective which seems like it would be a massive liability in combat. I agree a virtual environment would be preferable, although rather than representing the surroundings visually (which has a lot to distract from tactical decision-making), I'm picturing something like a higher-definition version of Elite Dangerous' IFF interface (with the little dots showing their relative angle to the ship).
- Apocryphon 7y agoIf you were going for hard sci-fi you wouldn’t even have human pilots at all, the drone would be doing the flying.