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Ok, now imagine you have to hump an extra 10lbs of crap in 120 degree heat for weeks on end while the glasses are fogged up and you got a sunscreen smudge on th

Ok, now imagine you have to hump an extra 10lbs of crap in 120 degree heat for weeks on end while the glasses are fogged up and you got a sunscreen smudge on the lens. And your field of view is now greatly complicated with extraneous information you don't need to know like ammo capacity of your current magazine. And you need to low crawl through a drainage/sewer ditch and through a hole in a fence to get to another position with all that crap on your head/body without getting tangled up. And now your patrol got delayed for some reason so now none of that crap is charged or working anyway. And your glasses or the controller got dislodged during a sprint to cover. Or you need to find the reset button for some reason. You can have my set. It might be a valuable training tool though.

chrisseaton 6y ago
> You can have my set. Thanks, I'll take it! You can say the same as you have about any technology. Why lug around a big heavy rifle when you could carry sharpened sticks? I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example. Now you wouldn't even consider leaving the wire without a radio under any circumstances whatsoever.
- remarkEon 6y ago
  >You can say the same as you did about any technology. Why lug around a big heavy rifle when you could carry sharpened sticks? Because the enemy doesn't use sticks, first of all. >I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example. They did not, because it represented a fundamental change in how ground warfare could be conducted and not everyone carried them (not everyone carries them today either, which is telling). Namely, coordinating accurate indirect fire. >Now you wouldn't even consider leaving the wire without a radio under any circumstances whatsoever. Because I want to be able to call in air-support and indirect. The difference with all these examples is that the technologies you are mentioning represented a game-changing way in how to enable infantry-support operations. It's not immediately clear to me that the same is true for a AR/VR helmet system used by infantry. It's possible that other branches could find uses for it in the same vein. Like the FSO using it to "see" the FLT and better coordinate indirect fire.
- lm28469 6y ago
  > I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example This doesn't prove anything and is 300% survivorship bias. There are thousands of tech innovations that were utter shit and we never hear about them. AR on the battlefield as describe above is a COD player wet dream and has no basis in reality. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619/soldier-weight/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619... > King estimates that the average soldier goes into action with a hefty 20 lbs of batteries.
  - chrisseaton 6y ago
    > AR on the battlefield as describe above is a COD player wet dream and has no basis in reality. I can only offer that I want to try it.

chrisseaton 6y ago

> You can have my set. Thanks, I'll take it! You can say the same as you have about any technology. Why lug around a big heavy rifle when you could carry sharpened sticks? I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example. Now you wouldn't even consider leaving the wire without a radio under any circumstances whatsoever.

remarkEon 6y ago
>You can say the same as you did about any technology. Why lug around a big heavy rifle when you could carry sharpened sticks? Because the enemy doesn't use sticks, first of all. >I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example. They did not, because it represented a fundamental change in how ground warfare could be conducted and not everyone carried them (not everyone carries them today either, which is telling). Namely, coordinating accurate indirect fire. >Now you wouldn't even consider leaving the wire without a radio under any circumstances whatsoever. Because I want to be able to call in air-support and indirect. The difference with all these examples is that the technologies you are mentioning represented a game-changing way in how to enable infantry-support operations. It's not immediately clear to me that the same is true for a AR/VR helmet system used by infantry. It's possible that other branches could find uses for it in the same vein. Like the FSO using it to "see" the FLT and better coordinate indirect fire.
lm28469 6y ago
> I guarantee you people said exactly the same about the first radios, for example This doesn't prove anything and is 300% survivorship bias. There are thousands of tech innovations that were utter shit and we never hear about them. AR on the battlefield as describe above is a COD player wet dream and has no basis in reality. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619/soldier-weight/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25644619... > King estimates that the average soldier goes into action with a hefty 20 lbs of batteries.
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  > AR on the battlefield as describe above is a COD player wet dream and has no basis in reality. I can only offer that I want to try it.