Bumping into other pedestrians on the street while staring at your cellphone is merely a rude inconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a battlefield setting, it could be deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Army is trying to prevent such a phenomenon by providing tablet data in soldier\u2019s helmets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tablets, known as Nett Warrior systems, often provide the location of friendly forces and other mapping data. Now that information is being moved to a heads up display available with a soldier\u2019s helmet. This would allow soldiers to look forward and on alert as opposed to focusing, head down, on a tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the Army wants to prevent is what is sometimes pejoratively termed the \u201cNett Warrior stare.\u201d.\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnytime you\u2019ve got a potential shooter looking down, when he\u2019s looking down he\u2019s not lethal,\u201d Lt. Col. Ray Gary, Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate military deputy, said during a visit to its Fort Belvoir facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking put some of that information onto an augmented reality suite so the solider is not looking down \u2014 they can concentrate and look down range.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary said the Army wants to display that data in an augmented reality suite so the solider is not looking down and instead can concentrate down range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The key is not to overwhelm soldiers with too much data, officials explained to C4ISRNET. While the Army is looking to provide a variety of mission command information to soldiers within these heads up displays, leaders want to allow soldiers to selectively choose what information is most critical to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ability to display information on a soldier\u2019s helmet through heads up display is expected to transition to the program executive office community in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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