DARPA Working On Glasses With: HUD, Zoom, 360º View, Night Vision, et cetera
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DARPA is working on glasses that will endow the user with zoom vision, various forms of nightsight, and act as a heads-up display besides. Perhaps best of all, the proposed kit would also offer "full sphere awareness" – that is, eyes in the back of your head. It is the goals of the DARPA Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC) project.
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[QUOTE]All this is to be achieved, according to the specifications for the new project, by the use of "computational cameras". These are a radical new approach to camera design, which will shift much of the burden of forming images – which is handled optically in today's cameras – into software.
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Darpa unveiled the Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras effort, or SCENICC
[QUOTE]The system, which is purely theoretical at this point, will provide a 360 degree, three-dimensional field of view for soldiers in the field. This optical omniscience is obtained through the use multiple cameras, including images from airborne drones. Soldiers will have real time 10x zoom capabilities and can operate everything via voice commands. As if that weren't enough, SCENICC employs augmented reality to identify and track targets in a way (we presume) not unlike your garden variety T-800.
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[QUOTE]Here’s how far advanced SCENICC is compared to bleeding-edge imaging and networking capabilities that the Army is currently developing. Right now, the Army’s asking three different companies — Raytheon, Rockwell Collins and General Dynamics — to build a wearable platform of digital maps, computers and radios, networked with one another. Soldiers would have warzone maps beamed onto helmet-mounted eyepieces.
The system, known as Nett Warrior, needs to weigh less than eight pounds, and it builds on a years-long and ultimately fruitless effort called Land Warrior. (One of the problems with Land Warrior is it was heavy and cumbersome, owing in part to battery weight.) The Army hopes to choose one of the Nett Warrior designs by March.
By the time it’ll actually roll out Nett Warrior after testing, production and deployment — a few years, optimistically — SCENICC will already be hard at work on its replacement. Darpa wants a hands-free zooming function within two years of work on the contract. By year three, the computer-enhanced vision tool needs to be ready. Year four is for 360-degree vision. Then it’s on to development.
The Army is generally hot for combat-ready smartphones to keep soldiers linked up with each other. And the buzz-generating tool for the soldier of the near future is mapping technology, delivered onto a smartphone or some other handheld mobile device, at least judging from this year’s Association of the U.S. Army confab.
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[QUOTE]The military researchers' ultimate goal is a miracle lightweight device which would provide all-around spherical vision out to 1000 meters (1100 yards) in high resolution and at a high frame rate across the visual spectrum and well into the infrared bands used by thermal imagers and night sights. However they might be willing to accept as a first step kit which merely improves hugely on that now on offer.
As an example, they give the current US issue M-22 binoculars, which are bulky, heavy and offer limited field-of-view and only 7x magnification. They say:
A preferred solution would operate hands-free, provide similar or better magnification on-demand, while providing FOV equal to that of the unaided eye, and incur [size, weight and power] cost comparable to that of current protective eyewear.[/QUOTE]
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Source: [url]http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/darpa-glasses-for-zoom-vision-night.html[/url]
That would be pretty disoriantating if you could see all around you no?
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26983978]Stay just the way you are, DARPA.[/QUOTE]
Only thing that deserves the defense budget in my opinion.
DARPA's level of technological advancement astounds and frightens me. Everything they're developing is remarkably genius, but seems to time and time again associate with the possibility of corrupt abuse. Instead of spending billions to make a super soldier why don't we actually take a moment to consider why we really need them?
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;26984285]DARPA's level of technological advancement astounds and frightens me. Everything they're developing is remarkably genius, but seems to time and time again associate with the possibility of corrupt abuse. Instead of spending billions to make a super soldier why don't we actually take a moment to consider why we really need them?[/QUOTE]
We need them so that the whole world will be like COD
[QUOTE=ShukaidoX;26984285] Instead of spending billions to make a super soldier why don't we actually take a moment to consider why we really need them?[/QUOTE]
Do you suggest that we also stop and think for a while before pressing the big transhumanism button? :geno:
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26984405]Do you suggest that we also stop and think for a while before pressing the big transhumanism button? :geno:[/QUOTE]
I vote we press the big red button next to the coffee machine
DARPA, when you need mad scientists, give them a call.
[QUOTE=tier56;26984574]DARPA, when you need mad scientists, give them a call.[/QUOTE]
Mad Engineers*
Metal Gear!
If only we had a thread to guess what DARPA would or should make next.
Lets just hope they won't probe said thread for ideas.
I think they have been playing too much crysis to come up with something like this, however i want something like this so fucking badly.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;26984982]I think they have been playing too much crysis to come up with something like this, however i want something like this so fucking badly.[/QUOTE]
It would be funny if DARPA even heard of Crysis.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;26983978]Stay just the way you are, DARPA.[/QUOTE]
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DARPA, DARPA, DARPA, these would be better for civilians, so they could defend their homeland more efficiently. Now, hand them over to the EU.
my vision will be augmented
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;26984405]Do you suggest that we also stop and think for a while before pressing the big transhumanism button? :geno:[/QUOTE]
There are aspects to DARPA's work I agree with more than others to say the least. If DARPA is working on transhumanism, then so long as it is used for the benefit of all mankind then I don't see the problem. However, the current socio-political situation in the U.S. has me thinking that the only people who will benefit from it are the super-rich. :smith:
The things darpa make are the things that will greatly help the average man eventually in the future, and being pro transhumanism myself, I feel that artificially making ourselves better is one of the best things we can do.
Strange, today I wished I had 360 degree glasses. Well thanks DERPA
I hope they can slim it down one day and make it a bit more social friendly.
Until they can do all that in a set of actual glasses, it's not all that impressive. Although the Spherical view is kinda neat
The cool thing about Nano Technology is that one day we definitely will have this sort of stuff built into glasses. Hell if they wanted to they could probably do it now, One thing on one set of glasses
Imagine Some hot Girl Behind you
Wearing Those.
Staring at Her Boobies Without her noticing
haha.
What other uses can we us this for. :D
[QUOTE=Rubs10;26985814]I hope they can slim it down one day and make it a bit more social friendly.[/QUOTE]
Way ahead of you.
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[QUOTE=Alvaldi;26984116]Only thing that deserves the defense budget in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I agree. It's the only defense agency [I]not[/I] dedicated to shooting brown people.
[QUOTE=Micr0;26988448]I agree. It's the only defense agency [I]not[/I] dedicated to shooting brown people.[/QUOTE]
You do know what the ultimate goal of all of these invisible tanks, super glasses, railguns, flying Humvees, battery cloth, supercomputers, and other various supersoldier tech is, right?
Not to say I don't support it. I totally want to have those glasses.
[QUOTE=Micr0;26988448]I agree. It's the only defense agency [I]not[/I] dedicated to shooting brown people.[/QUOTE]
Yeah it's dedicated to shoot any people.
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