Wake me up when this becomes a reality in the home. Imagine gaming on a system like this. These pictures come courtesy of an illicit visit to the Avalon air show. during business hours, much to my colleagues chagrin...



This young lady Pascale is a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin demonstrating her 3D virtualisation system on a virtual engineering model of the J35 Lightning JSF.



The system comprises two HD IR cameras at each corner of an approx 7m cube. She is wearing 1280 x 720 res goggles with multiple receptor points about her person being IR reflection half spheres that allow millimetric positional determination.



On the two screens above her left and right you can see her avatar inside a J35 weapons bay. When she touches a surface or item it turns red.





Here Australian Air Vice-Marshal Geoff Brown is putting on the backpack and goggles required for the application. The backpack contains batteries and "circuit boards" ...



You can see the finger reflectors coming on line in the IR sensitive camera I used.



The system works immediately without needing learning preemption. Even an Air Force Deputy Chief can jump right in and interact with the engineering CAD of the J35.



There is a particular grace to someone accurately interacting with a haptic virtual environment ...



One can pick up and carry things around of course ...



So there are two each of these IR cameras at the eight points of the cube, this is a portable, prototypical, industrial demonstration of the rig. They are developing a touch interface on the gloves ... the consumer implications of this tech are so much fun.



I didn't actually get to see any live aircraft at the show. The electronics on display were too interesting...