Smart jacket and VR headset let you pilot a drone with your body
From: New Scientist - 06/12/2017
By: Timothy Revell

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
in Switzerland say they have created a virtual reality (VR) headset and
jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body
movement. For example, when the user wearing the jacket moves their body to
the left, the drone moves to the left, and if the user lunges forward, so
does the drone. The researchers say the headset enables the user to see what
the drone sees, and built-in headphones provide the sounds surrounding the
drone. "The goal is to make people fly without ever leaving the ground," says
EPFL researcher Dario Floreano. He notes the jacket gives drone pilots a more
intuitive way to control their aircraft, so they can focus on other tasks at
the same time. Initial testing has shown users learned to control a drone
more quickly with the jacket than with standard joystick controls.

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