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As a shooting enthusiast, my first thought is what this does in pistol competitions. Shooting a pistol is, perhaps unintuitively, more difficult than a long ar
by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
As a shooting enthusiast, my first thought is what this does in pistol competitions.
Shooting a pistol is, perhaps unintuitively, more difficult than a long arm, because the rear sight is effectively floating around "out there", and you need practice to get your rear eye in the right place (even if using a flip-up red dot reflex sight). When moving around, re-acquiring always takes time, and it slows you down.
With the smart glasses (and a teensy tiny accelerometer-thngy on the barrel), your point of aim is always in your field of view, and you don't need to slow down or even acquire. You could hip-shoot accurately from a dead sprint. It's gonna be pretty rad. They're gonna have to do eyeware examinations, or else it's going to be dominated by smartglass shooters. Like, "dominated" as in "someone is using a cheat code" dominated.
- meheleventyone 3y agoThere's no screen so, not yet. But it does sound pretty much like having a laser on the gun no?
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoSeeing a laser dot at any serious range is pretty much impossible, at least in my experience. There's also a lot of airborne material at shoots as multiple rounds impact the target/ground/etc. They consistently time slower than reflex sights, and sometimes even iron sights. That's not considering the problem that in fog/dust, the beam is a "HERE I AM" arrow. Not a problem in competition though. But it underlies the primary use of lasers: IR beams with nightvision. THAT'S the golden ticket for lasers, and you can see where your buddies are aiming too. Now, if you're fighting someone else with nightvision . . hey, good thing we can choose who we fight, right guys? Guys?
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoAh criminy, no screen? The hell is the point.
- 0xbadcafebee 3y ago> You could hip-shoot accurately from a dead sprint. It's gonna be pretty rad. Sounds pretty terrifying to me. A real life aimbot, that any human being can use for 1 shot 1 kill.
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoHonestly the idea of some asshole dead-dropping an armed sentrybot is far, far scarier to me. A couple of giggle-switch Glocks with drum mags, hooked up to a "Blast Anything That Moves" gimbal, would probably be deadlier than the same weight/volume of high explosive. Bullets don't care about the inverse square law.