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Old 19-10-2016, 10:02 PM
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This video astronomy thing is CRYING for a VR headset.
You know? To get the really immersive feeling during observing that you - I think - only get when looking through binoculars?

You can not get that by staring at a backlit monitor an arms length away from your eyes and with the table top, the carpet, the dog, the partner and other things being in your conscious perception all the time.

I haven't entered the realm of VR and never put on a headset, either.

But they are already working with smartphones as in: you put your smartphone INTO the headset, start an VR-enabled app -
then put the headset on and look into it.

Just imagine how THAT would feel when the feed for the headset were the actual camera feed from your telescope...

Can't be too difficult to engineer. I wonder if astro companies have something like that in their pipeline?
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