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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-26-2009, 03:38 AM
zuludelta
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Another figure that was a tough update:
Countdown
Design notes:
- Pretty tough to update an astronaut to fit in with a small SOF counterterrorist team, but I tried what I could. I think he looks okay now as a Command & Control officer, but I don't know if he's recognizable off the bat as Countdown. At this point though, I almost don't care anymore, given how much time I've spent stretching the boundaries of what he could be on the team whilst still retaining a significant resemblance to the original. Any Countdown fans out there that think he's wrongly represented within the context of what I'm trying to do, I'd like to hear how you would rationalize putting an astronaut on a JSOC unit.
- He's got the AHMD helmet I initially used for my first attempt at creating Psyche-Out. As I mentioned before, it's an "augmented reality" helmet (as opposed to virtual reality) developed by L-3 Communications for the Air Force. The two clear composite plates suspended in front of the wearer allow for images to be projected on them from the helmet's built-in mini-projectors. These plates can be used as computer screens and as HMDs (which overlay data directly over the wearer's field of vision, so they get cool
"Terminator-vision"
that updates information on the objects you view as you view them). With the appropriate satellite communications gear, a wearer can even access real-time satellite imaging views and overlay topographical, meteorological, and even tactical data over a viewed expanse of environment. The helmet also has motion-sensing features which track the position of the wearer's head, so the user can remotely control, say, the cameras on a reconnaissance UAV or installation security cameras with head movements, and the view projected on the composite plates will adjust accordingly.
- For his backpack, I just adapted an augmented reality computer backpack similar to the ones used in various computer science and engineering labs around the US and Canada, replacing the usual antenna with a more compact "fat" satellite antenna from an AN/PRC-117F combat net radio.
TO read his full filecard, click on the Filecard Project link in my signature.
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