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First Person Remote Control!

08/19/2009 - 5:00 pm By Rob MacKay
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R/C Head Tracking plane

Most people want to fly, but they either can’t because as a human, flapping the arms doesn’t work and/or they don’t want to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.  They could start to learn to fly small planes, but then most don’t get the same kind of bonus’ the city bankers do…

How about Remote Control!  Sticking a camera to your remote controlled vehicle is nothing new, but how about the ability to sit IN your vehicle?  Through the powers of geekish technology I give you camera head tracking fused with R/C!

Imagine the ability to sit up there in the clouds, or race around the track from the front seat of your R/C vehicle, check it out below…

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Author: Rob MacKay

28 year old father of 3 and husband of 1. Web design is my thing and gaming is my passtime! :) Tweet me @svgrob


4 Comments

Dwyndal

August 19th, 2009

great vids, i’d be the guy sitting in the first video and try to skim the plane over head and clip my scalp on accident. haha thanks or the share

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Rob MacKay

August 20th, 2009

haha yea me too :D

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Andrea La Valleur

August 21st, 2009

funkay! Me gusta mucho y quiero una porfa :)

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Brent ~ the roseman

March 28th, 2010

Nice. I would get in so much trouble with toys like this…
I would build a radio controlled UFO however, and have some FUN.
Maybe something like this…
http://www.marketingshift.com/2004/7/geeks-and-ufos-go-hand-in-hand.cfm

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