It's happened, the Oculus Rift has given us an anime future.

This may be old news but Norway Tankers have been participating in a program where they use an Oculus Rift headset for better visibility when driving under "hostile" conditions, basically any time they would need to close down their hatches a mounted camera system pipes in a 3D surround view to the Rift and the tanker can drive relatively unimpeded. (the latency in the kits at time of writing provide too many problems for extended wear.) I was recently watching Patlabor 2 (1993) and when I came across the photos of these norwegian tankers it blew my mind a little. The mechanical design of Oshii's films always seemed grounded and realistic but damn, that's pretty fucking close.

Exciting times boys and girls. Magnetic implants, NFC chipped hands and VR Tank drivers.

Awesome

Wrong Anime Future

@bigjeffrey: exactly

@bigjeffrey said:

Wrong Anime Future

*Right Anime Future

@bigjeffrey: No. Not like this. Not like this...

I was expecting Drew to bring this up during the news segment. This use of Oculus actually makes a ton of sense when you think about hard it is to see out of a tank. Maybe more so than the similar tech in the F35.

Anime people look better than real life people so I'll take the Mickey Hatsuno future please.

@bigjeffrey said:

Wrong Anime Future

Haha, this is actually what I thought this thread was gonna be about going in. I hafta say: ...I'm disappointed.

Man is that dude gonna be embarrassed when everyone else leaves the war and turns the lights off, and he's sitting in the tank by himself all like, "guys? Guys?".

Are you ready to ride the roller coaster?

@bigjeffrey said:

Wrong Anime Future

There are worse things to sleep with...

"Put on the goggles"

"I don't want t-"

"PUTTADAGOGGAZ!!!!!!"

@reisz said:

@bigjeffrey said:

Wrong Anime Future

*Right Anime Future

That's actually what I thought I was going to see when I clicked on the thread. Thank god it wasn't...at least at first.

This is where I need technology to go. Not the tank thing, the sleep with Hatsune Miku thing. I need it. For science.

@flipperdesert said:

@joshwent said:

Man is that dude gonna be embarrassed when everyone else leaves the war and turns the lights off, and he's sitting in the tank by himself all like, "guys? Guys?".

That was mean of them to do. I felt so fucking bad for him when I watched that live.

It won't be enough until I can feel her virtual breath on my neck.

...

@themanwithnoplan: God that was such a great Happy Hour. That was also the one with Babysitting Mama. Funny as fuck.

Ryan bursting out laughing from the Megan's law comment was the cherry on top. Man, he had such a contagious laugh.

@reisz said:

This may be old news but Norway Tankers have been participating in a program where they use an Oculus Rift headset for better visibility when driving under "hostile" conditions, basically any time they would need to close down their hatches a mounted camera system pipes in a 3D surround view to the Rift and the tanker can drive relatively unimpeded. (the latency in the kits at time of writing provide too many problems for extended wear.) I was recently watching Patlabor 2 (1993) and when I came across the photos of these norwegian tankers it blew my mind a little. The mechanical design of Oshii's films always seemed grounded and realistic but damn, that's pretty fucking close.

Exciting times boys and girls. Magnetic implants, NFC chipped hands and VR Tank drivers.

You remember some tank dude in an anime a little too well, creep.

@bigjeffrey said:

Wrong Anime Future

You on the other hand, have your head on straight.

I'll be honest, I was expecting an oculus rift with cat ears or some kind of plug in sexual aid addon.

Ghost in the Shell

I need this. I NEED THIS

@fattony12000: I don't know about some of that Ghost in the Shell stuff. The ending to Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence was fucking weird although what happened to the Major could be cool.

@how92:

@fattony12000: God I want Motoko to be my waifu.