Tuesday, June 2, 2015

First-person drone tourism will let you see the sights from home

Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the Valley of the Temples, a large park of Greek ruins situated on the south-west coast of Sicily. But soon you could be able to get a drone's-eye view of the sights. Helmut Hlavacs at the University of Vienna has developed a system that allows people to control a drone as it visits faraway sites.
The budding tourist sits at home, wearing a pair of virtual reality goggles. As they move their head, they direct a drone that has cameras pointed in all directions, feeding the view back to the user.

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