{"id":226763,"date":"2010-01-25T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/25\/u-s-military-now-wants-3d-surveillance-cameras-avatar-invented-3d-you-know\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:30:11","slug":"u-s-military-now-wants-3d-surveillance-cameras-avatar-invented-3d-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226763","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military now wants 3D surveillance cameras. Avatar invented 3D, you know."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a sense, the following story can be summed up thus: the US military wants new, hi-tech equipment. That’s not exactly breaking news, no, but there’s an Avatar<\/i> connection, so if the world could stop rotating on its axis for a moment… It’s called Fine Detail Optical Surveillance, and the military wants Darpa to develop it<\/a>. Think 3D spy cameras. Attach one to a Predator-type device and the boots on the ground—fresh-faced kids from the corn fields of Iowa—will be able to see the bad guys long before they know what’s going on. Woo!<\/p>\n

Now, that’s what the Pentagon wants. Whether or not Darpa, made famous by Metal Gear Solid<\/i><\/a>, can actually deliver it is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n

It sorta sounds like the system<\/a> that scans ports and other at-risk locations, and churns out “Doom<\/i>-like<\/i> graphics.<\/p>\n

There’s really not too much more to this. I will say this, though: the next time you see stories touting Avatar<\/i> as the highest grossing movie ever, please keep in mind that these stories don’t take inflation into account. Also, the average ticket price for 3D Avatar<\/i> is $18, quite a bit more than plain ol’ 2D movies. Not taking inflation into account is like baking an apple pie, then saying the apple part is optional. It’s like, what<\/i>?<\/p>\n

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In a sense, the following story can be summed up thus: the US military wants new, hi-tech equipment. That’s not exactly breaking news, no, but there’s an Avatar connection, so if the world could stop rotating on its axis for a moment… It’s called Fine Detail Optical Surveillance, and the military wants Darpa to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}