Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person - Gizmodo Comments

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

RaepGoblin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:15:46 EDT

Please god tell me I can apply this to an existing RC car. I have nitro racing rcs that I really want to do this with.

RaepGoblin

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Mr.Wilson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:16:58 EDT

Finally they did this right! And they even added something I would've never thought of! Only thing's not only is it a color camera with big goggles, but that camera system's going to probably make the cost painful.

Mr.Wilson

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

reddevil — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:03:32 EDT

Wow I really want this.

reddevil

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

gstar — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:46:21 EDT

I love it and I want it. It is so hard to actually race RC cars because the perspective keeps changing. This totally rocks.

gstar

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

cabowah — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:54:45 EDT

Makes me think, why the hell them guy's not driving their own cars. Hell they are 30+ years old.

But a 10 year old, sure would have a lot of fun spying on anything that moves.

@DJrock3k: Thats way more fun, only if you could control that damn cat.

cabowah

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Bos'un's Mate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:21:35 EDT

@MrBlahBlah: I can't imagine that there are any intellectual properties involved, so I bet RadioShack will have something similar on their shelves by Christmas 2009.

Bos'un's Mate

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

MrBlahBlah — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:19:40 EDT

@Bos'un's Mate:

ouch! that's painful. but this really is so cool. Going off jumps would be tons of fun. through flames.

MrBlahBlah

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

hnkelley — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:56:43 EDT

Two thumbs up! I love this. Do you think the team over at Mythbusters might want to incorporate this into their various remote-control REAL car experiments?

hnkelley

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

_newuser_ — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:09:56 EDT

so, this is just like in the games...

_newuser_

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

rurena — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:21:09 EDT

I'm not saying that it hasn't been done before but this might make a good platform for autonomous computer controlled robots. It's a moving platform with input to process. What if a modified version of this made it threw the darpa challenge.

rurena

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Bos'un's Mate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:52:12 EDT

List price is € 575.

Bos'un's Mate

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Bos'un's Mate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:11 EDT

Here's the source page translated:
[translate.google.com]

Bos'un's Mate

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

kstop — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:28:38 EDT

Already done for RC planes:

[video.google.fr]

You may want to watch with the sound off though.

kstop

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

draconis2941 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:27:37 EDT

WANT!

draconis2941

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Curves — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:14:56 EDT

@liveinvt: Would you like the ladies to cover up a little more? Be careful of your answer, or this crowd will drag you out of here and beat you senseless when you say yes.

Curves

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Shingo56 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:06:18 EDT

Cool video but what was up with that hick music?

Shingo56

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Rondogg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:03:01 EDT

If this could be adapted to other cars besides their crappy electric I'd be all over it.

Rondogg

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:53:48 EDT

@DJrock3k: Better off using dogs. They can be trained to approach cute girls. Wow, I just had a great idea. Collar mounted cameras for police dogs. New show: K9 Cops. You can freeze frame the looks on peoples faces right before they bite them, and do slow mo take downs. Get it narrated by Stacy Keach, and we got a hit on our hands.

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

zeroprime — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:53:48 EDT

I would want to get this if only to run down the street with the glasses on while the car follows behind me. Talk about dysphoria!

zeroprime

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:37:58 EDT

@DJrock3k: Until my dog eats it. JK

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

DJrock3k — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:24:50 EDT

1. Remove Video Head from Car.
2. Mount head on specially designed Cat helmet. Warning - cat-helmet not easily applied.
3. Release Cat into neighborhood.
4. the usual YouTubery

DJrock3k

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

bandit — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:13:16 EDT

This would be great on RC planes, except you gotta make sure you aren't getting too close to the ground.

bandit

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

strider_mt2k — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:12:34 EDT

That's really cool.
I love stuff like this!

strider_mt2k

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:12:26 EDT

@TheAdAgency: WAR CAT?

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

harleycw — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:11:40 EDT

RC cars could communicate over cellphone and/or wifi (or in the future mesh networks). This would allow for cars that could travel great distances relatively cheaply. Couple that with Qik and Google maps and there you have a very cheap version of RC car level Google Street View.

harleycw

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

TheAdAgency — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:56:38 EDT

I need this for my cat.

TheAdAgency

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:18 EDT

Wow!!! I want it. They need to add a microphone too though... not sure my dog is going to like this very much.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Cobolman2 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:42:21 EDT

The wire runs from the headset to the controller, not the car itself.

Cobolman2

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

FizzyPopMan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:40:59 EDT

I want one now!

FizzyPopMan

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Johnny.Shitbox — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:36:17 EDT

the only thing more awesome would be Chuck Norris in the video - or to see what chuck sees through those goggles - kicking ass

Johnny.Shitbox

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Mitch — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:34:17 EDT

I have to admit...that is ridiculously cool.

Mitch

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

mariogalaxyman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:32:47 EDT

You guys cannot tell me this post didn't make you envision a massive honky-tonk obese shark orgy.

mariogalaxyman

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

liveinvt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:31:20 EDT

@Curves: These days, ladies pull their skirts up enough, or walk around wearing tights and a tank-top "bra" - there's no need to go to such lengths. They do everything they can to be naked without breaking the law. Heh.

liveinvt

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

liveinvt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:28:16 EDT

What is that thing in front of his shirt... a wire! eew!

liveinvt

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

dwight-schrute — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:24:11 EDT

I wish I had this on my cars when I was younger. It seemed that when our RC cars where on their last leg we would send them on a final journey down the stairs and see how many times we could repeat the process before the car gave up the ghost. It would be fun to see what the car saw as it died.

dwight-schrute

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

mariogalaxyman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:21:55 EDT

The sun is black!

mariogalaxyman

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

LoganSix — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:20:22 EDT

NO BUMPING

First thought was: I can't believe it took so long for this to happen.

Second thought during the video : No, that guy standing with the over-sized sunglasses playing with something in his hands doesn't look creepy at all. Not at all.

LoganSix

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:15:30 EDT

I'd love to see this for larger gas-powered RC cars.

@Josh_Geyer: I thought I was the only one!

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Geisrud — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:13:54 EDT

@BasicBlack: Then you could incorporate a device to record that video feed, and...

Geisrud

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

jwardell — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:13:03 EDT

What? It's not 1080p??

jwardell

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

BasicBlack — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:11:05 EDT

Serious mod potential here. You could mount it to your coffee table, and it could watch TV for you. It would be like living vicariously while living vicariously.

BasicBlack

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Josh_Geyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:04:26 EDT

When I was a kid I always wanted to do this with an RC submarine...

Josh_Geyer

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

ParJoe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:02:26 EDT

FINALLY someone did this! Awesome!

Fat Shark needs a better logo though.

ParJoe

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

DeanOfAllTrades — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:25 EDT

Now if they added another camera and made it stereoscopic, that would be cool. You'd have depth perception.

DeanOfAllTrades

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

mhlaxp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:06 EDT

Wow, whoever decided that THAT is the music to be paired with that video should be shot.

Preferably by a gun mounted on an RC car.

mhlaxp

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

tomaartist — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:56:15 EDT

i wonder if theirs audio, so can drive around and
listen to people talk about you or you hear a continuous
loop of honky tonk.

tomaartist

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

weatherman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:53:50 EDT

The video quality may be pretty crappy but it is still pretty cool - Forget Gran Turismo 5, I'm spending all my money on a set of these!

weatherman

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Geisrud — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:47:39 EDT

...the end result of which would be tons and tons of "pilots" puking on the ground...

would be almost as fun watching them trip over themselves and fall down as the "pilots" did various maneuvers.

Geisrud

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:43:03 EDT

@Geisrud: I'm guessing those were power supplies/hard line connections to combat battery drain/interference from other "toys".

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

workingonyourinvoice — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:42:17 EDT

Too much awesome.
I'm surprised the video is that clear, I've always imagined something like that would be way too bumpy. Now I wanna see it on a dirt track jumping and shit.

workingonyourinvoice

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:42:06 EDT

If I could combine this with my Jurassic Park RC car w/pop-up spitting Dilophasaur, then I could have real fun!

Git Em SteveDave is a poor substitute for LindsayJoy

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

crazy0000 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:32:11 EDT

No jumps? Thats balls.

crazy0000

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Geisrud — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:30:42 EDT

Wireless, of course referring the lesser wire going from the headset to the car in the picture...as opposed to "wiremore," which would be a heavier gauge wire I presume.

Geisrud

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Rabid Penguin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:28:46 EDT

Interesting concept. Now alls it needs is force feedback, so if you crash your RC car you actually feel it, and audio so you only hear the sounds around your car. It would be the closest thing to driving a car without driving a car...

Rabid Penguin

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Salinger — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:28:28 EDT

@N@tedog: Thats what the chicks at the races are for...umbrellas, drinks,...and the SHOW!!! :-)

Salinger

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Y2KGTP — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:27:49 EDT

Nice China copy of an Airtronics radio.
[www.gowiththeshark.com]

[graphics.globalhobby.com]

Y2KGTP

Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person

Darrone — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:27:36 EDT

Yes, it's all fun and games until you're controlling a UAV and someone Russian MiG blows you up and everyone laughs while you flail wildly running around the room.

Darrone