this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
214 points (97.8% liked)
Ukraine
9259 readers
910 users here now
News and discussion related to Ukraine
Community Rules
πΊπ¦ Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.
π»π€’No content depicting extreme violence or gore.
π₯Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title
π·Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human involved must be flagged NSFW
β Server Rules
- Remember the human! (no harassment, threats, etc.)
- No racism or other discrimination
- No Nazis, QAnon or similar
- No porn
- No ads or spam (includes charities)
- No content against Finnish law
π³ Defense Aid π₯
π³ Humanitarian Aid βοΈβοΈ
πͺ Volunteer with the International Legionnaires
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The ability for drone operators to function like this without depth perception is astounding to me. The end felt anticlimactic because I had so much trouble determining the scale of everything I was looking at.
Drone op (sort of, not dedicated but have for years as a camera op) here. It's difficult! You really have to get your bearings on the way up looking towards the horizon and then add up context clues based on the shifting scale as you move, kind of taking each object in relative to each other.
Lol kidding. We have a spotter 99% of the time. You're in goggles or watching a monitor, they're going "Stop. Left. Turn 40 degrees. Drop a few inches slowly. Stop." etc.
Nah. I accept your initial explanation as fact.
Love it
That totally makes more sense. I really liked the fake description as well. You definitely had me going.
It was fun, not my usual style lol
how soon until cheap drones have two cameras so operators can perceive depth directly?
When I started to need glasses in my 40s I noticed that my eyes are wildly different, so I had no depth perception at all for all my life before. You get used to using other clues.