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Re: Virtual Reality 1st Person Driver?

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Originally Posted by iggy_gim View Post
Has anyone ever thought of hooking something like an oculus rift/google cardboard to an onboard camera for the robot to create a sort of 1st person driver for the robot. You can argument the vision to aid in aiming, driving, etc. I know in some aspects it might be cumbersome, but I think it sounds like a good idea. (Is it even allowed in FRC?)
Sure it would be allowed. (and I have spent hours thinking about this)

The problem lies with the infrastructure of FRC itself. There is a bandwidth cap for robot-driverstation communication, and to get 3d you would need 2 cameras streaming to the DS to work. The problem arises with the fact that you have to choose (Pick any two)
  • Horrible Resolution
  • Horrible Framerate
  • Horrible Compression

I, personally, would get a pretty severe headache from that for even just a few minutes.

Were we able to send dual 480/720p 20+fps cameras, it would be definitely a viable control system IMO.
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