Stereoscopic "googles", for FVP, has been commented on in the web for over a year or so now but nothing to market from a quick look of the web. What has been done is cutting two fat sharks up and taking the inputs from two cameras on a plane and passing them into each glasses unit separately while looking at the left eye from one unit and the right eye from the other unit. 2012 may be the year of the stereoscopic "googles" or glasses or wrap arounds or peepers or veiwers, to be set up and sold. 16 hours on the web, over 48 hours 28-29 Jan 2012, has shown that FVP needs to start with stereoscopic googles supported by a signal from two receivers on the ground and use of two channel to transmit in the air captured by two cameras. The person who sets this up seemlessly will have a product to sell off the shelf that can be used in many circumstances. Problems to look out for would be compatability between parts. This inventive step will be worth patenting as the run on the product will be instaintaneous, sustained and profitable. A combination arrangment could be set up but best for now is to look at one system approach. Improvements would be to have micro servers on the two cameras that have presets like opposite 180 degrees, both forward facing, one forward and one rear, one left up and one right down. This could be used by putting the plane in safe mode and then turn the contols over to ajusting the cameras. Simple "mono scopic googles" could be used for this with a switcher between the two cameras (stereoscopic only works when both face 'forward, in the same plane). A new train of electronics will be needed to deliver this to the ground. Instead of having two circuit boards doubled up, twice the weight, volume and windage, the newer system can be compactified (not in the sense of after a crash) so that for little difference in what presently is needed the system looks and acts much the same. Consider the audio industry and how one speaker on a valve set became one speaker on a portable transister radio and then the walkman was launched and apple has rounded off the stereo sound revolution with the iphone. The same is avout to happen with the stereoscopic FPV that has just started sending pictures back in real time in mono. The future will be looking in the fridge to see what food you might like to get off the couch to go and retrieve. lol. BB is my nick name from Tok club after two days observing. I got married, sat on the couch and "neck minute" I was a BB.
. I hope this helps. Set up this new topic because it will be fundamental in time to advancement in rounding out a good marketable product. At the moment the cost of a FPV mono system with mono googles, receiver, camera, Tx, battaries and wires is ($us 300+100+50+50+100=$600). The stereo scopic system is lacking the SS-Googles, but all the rest is on the market with an increase of $150 in price for the most budget model. $750 minus the stereo tweek in the googles is what a 300m to 1500m system may cost. Lets see how low we can get this and how high we can raise the quality in 18 months from now. The whole world of sports opens up when "Stereo flying" starts. Slaylum courses start up off the ground a few meters. distance races around markers and back to base. Altertude climbs at speed, but with all this safety regulations must also be considered. I like the sport of a helium baloon in the centre of an empty hanger and one has to "stereo fly" into the hagger at top speed and 360 degree turn around the balloon before exiting the hannger to go onto the next haggen in a list of 3-5 hangers. Popping the balloon or touching the walls is disqualification. without stereo flying abilities this is not as accurate or comfortable and may not hacve been tried because of the limitations of MONO. Let us go STEREO FLYING today. BB Saluting you and your welcome to FVP development. What does not crash us makes us fly longer!
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