May 23 2008First Person Perspective: R/C Car Comes With Camera And Dorky Looking Goggles
The VTS (Vision Tracking System) R/C car is probably the awesomest R/C vehicle I've seen in a long time (flying lawnmower excluded). The car has an onboard camera attached, which relays real-time video to your goggles so you can race with a first person perspective. Not only that, the camera moves around according to your head movements! Holy shit I want one. Unfortunately each setup (including controller, etc.) will cost you over $1,100. And then you'd have to convince a buddy to dish out the same so you can actually race. Which would be fun as hell, especially since you'll be wearing a pair of goofy-ass goggles and waving your head around like Ray Charles (see video). The goggles do lend themselves to one of my secret racing tactics though -- taking yours off and kicking your opponent in the nuts.
Another picture and a worthwhile VIDEO after the jump, but a heads up -- they set it to a song about some guy whose dog got hit by a truck and wife left him because he loves NASCAR more than her (read: country).
r/c car puts you in the driver's seat [technabob]
Reader Comments
1. Angel Mass - May 23, 2008 2:52 PM
This is a cool idea actually, regarding the goggles that doesnt precisely looks matrix style ones, yeah
2. For Shame - May 23, 2008 3:10 PM
I can't believe you didn't mention the ability to drive under womens skirts and into the lady's locker room!
3. Magoo - May 23, 2008 3:12 PM
SWEET but yea the glasses are kinda dumb probably wouldnt be too hard to mod though
4. ErikHK - May 23, 2008 3:38 PM
#3 Magoo: It would be hard to implement the head tracking mumbojumbo without goggles...
5. blp - May 23, 2008 4:46 PM
Me too #2. I think we have an imposter. What have you done with the real geekologie writer you bastard! (and the car rules)
6. CD - May 23, 2008 7:44 PM
Now they only have to install cameras on rc planes, that'd be even more awesome. But I have to admit these cars are pretty neat, too.
7. dan - May 23, 2008 11:01 PM
i guess the ass-hattedness of the model doesn't help the dorkiness of the goggles.
8. Apantramse - May 25, 2008 10:28 AM
This has been done a long time ago and way better.
Why be stuck on the ground when you can be soaring in the sky and be having a wicked dogfight with a couple of buddies.
Or why not drop Chinese crackers on your neighbor’s cat, who keeps shitting on your lawn…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGToRphxgJM&feature=related
9. guate6 - May 26, 2008 3:43 PM
Hell I think it's cool. Relax people, the writer is either having an off day, or went AWOL...someone's filling in.