{"id":14299,"date":"2014-05-07T04:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/norwegian-army-tests-virtual-reality-headset-in\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T04:30:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T04:30:02","slug":"norwegian-army-tests-virtual-reality-headset-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/norwegian-army-tests-virtual-reality-headset-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Army Tests Virtual-Reality Headset in Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The virtual-reality Oculus Rift headset has been put to a novel use by the Norwegian army – helping soldiers to drive tanks.}}<\/p>\n

By mounting cameras on the outside of the tank, soldiers were able to create a 360-degree feed to the Oculus headset, worn by the driver.<\/p>\n

The device – still just a prototype – is much cheaper than conventional military camera systems.<\/p>\n

But the picture quality is not yet good enough for operational use.<\/p>\n

The army began testing the headset in 2013 and in April of this year tried out the latest iteration of the hardware.<\/p>\n

“It is a partial success,” project leader Maj Ola Petter Odden told reporters.<\/p>\n

“The concept is sound, but the technology isn’t quite there yet. The picture quality is good for 10-15m [30-50ft] – but after that it is difficult to distinguish details, for example whether an opponent is carrying a weapon.”<\/p>\n

Now he plans to wait until next year for further tests.<\/p>\n

“There will be better hardware and we can test it again then,” he said.<\/p>\n

The virtual-reality headset hit the headlines when Facebook bought the company behind it – Oculus VR – for $2bn (\u00a31.1bn) in March.<\/p>\n

To date neither has said much about what they plan to do together, but this week Oculus VR chief executive Brendan Iribe talked about hopes “to build a one billion player MMO”.<\/p>\n

Massively multi-player online games (MMO) using virtual reality (VR) would be the “holy grail” for the technology, he told delegates at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.<\/p>\n

Facebook’s large audience would help make such a platform possible although such an enormous player base would require a much larger network than existed currently, he said.<\/p>\n

And while Oculus is starting off with a big focus in gaming he said that a lot of where VR would go in the next decade would be about “face-to-face communication and social”.<\/p>\n

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