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Re: Wearing Oculus Rift during autonomous

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Originally Posted by Jon K. View Post
I would ask a Q&A question on this as it blocks your true vision(from my understanding of the Rift) and it would therefore become a safety concern. Also remember that you must wear Safety Glasses at all times while on the field. My inclination based off the safety glasses aspect alone would be that this would be illegal.
As far as I can see, there's no rule that states members of the drive team must be able to see, or that their vision has to be unencumbered.

You can use a rift with glasses on, but it's annoying. Arguably having it on you counts as a eye protection though... hard to say whether the transition between safety glasses/rift would be allowable though.

But agree, this might be a good Q&A question.
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