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Re: Next Year's Game?

Tell you what: find an R/C flight simulator. Fly a bit in the various view modes. You'll quickly find that you can't get enough information--the plane's too small, you can't see the ground, etc. Now see if you can fly an R/C aircraft in the real world. It'll be much easier, at least in terms of vision.

You can also do this with a computer-based flight simulator, but it's not as good a demonstration.

Cameras are limited in what they can/can't do. Their angle is limited by the lens, they can't give you very good depth perception (when I'm flying my simulator, I tell when I can land on the runway by whether the shadow is on the runway, and that's the only way to do it reliably), and looking at something else that's important means either changing the angle or zooming out, both of can which affect your vision negatively.

If it happens at all, it will be limited in duration, and hopefully teams get 2 cameras to do it with.
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