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2021-04-28 Science & Technology

War games: Army's new night vision goggles look like they are straight out of Halo video games

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-28 05:41|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Wake me up when you get to the Augmented Reality add on that lets you paint Disney characters on hostiles.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-28 10:40|| 2021-04-28 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Is this close enuf ?

Explained: The controversy over ‘woke culture’ that ‘linked’ Jane Austen’s tea-drinking to slavery

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-28 10:46|| 2021-04-28 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Or...
Pokemon GO uses your GPS, mapping technology, and your phone’s camera to alter the real world as you see it through your Smartphone.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-28 11:08|| 2021-04-28 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 As Besoeker’s article does not explain in enough detail, a secondary theme of Mansfield Park, one of Miss Austen’s later novels, is exactly how dehumanizing the slave trade is for both master and slaves, and how even a single visit —of some months duration, to be sure — made the heir of Mansfield Park unfit company for decent folk forever after.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-28 12:35|| 2021-04-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 4500 units?
It's a "try out" purchase.
Some go to the field. Some just get turned off and on every day. Can helicopter pilots use them (they certainly use the current ones). How do they work when wet /in the arctic /when exposed to concussion.
This was nothing more than a PR release from a Brit company.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-04-28 14:26|| 2021-04-28 14:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Microsoft to supply AR 'Hololens' for Army.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-28 14:33|| 2021-04-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

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