On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> In a combat environment, successfully being able to *ignore* the input from
> all but one of your data sources at a time would not be a survival-enhancing
> ability . . . .

Depends.  If, for example, you have thumbnail video feeds from the
rest of your (say, 4 person & a skeet drone) fire team, being able to
ignore the other three views to focus on your own feed (unless, say,
you need to look at a situation from someone  else's view, or the
skeet's view.

(skeet= disposable short range sensor drone, reporting to (surviving)
team leader, or possibly one each.  short range, maybe 10 meters?
Just enough to look around corners, over walls, and provide limited
"overwatch" view. hat tip to Jeff Schwartz for the idea.)

For example, moving by bounding overwatch, if you're moving,  you want
YOUR perspective.  If you're on overwatch, you may want to watch YOUR
view, the skeet's view, and the view of one or both the moving
squaddies, cycling between them and with the skeet looking for the
glint of optics and listening for weapons fire, pinging for attention
if it spots either.

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