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This might be a bit of a psifi reach, but let’s grab a couple documents here for an old-fashioned reference point mash-up accompanied by some wild speculation (the very best kind):

NASA also used synthetic vision for remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs), such as the High Maneuvability Aerial Testbed or HiMAT (see Sarrafian, 1984). According to the report by NASA, the aircraft was flown by a pilot in a remote cockpit, and control signals up-linked from the flight controls in the remote cockpit on the ground to the aircraft, and aircraft telemetry downlinked to the remote cockpit displays (see photo). The remote cockpit could be configured with either nose camera video or with a 3D synthetic vision display. SV was also used for simulations of the HiMAT. Sarrafian reports that the test pilots found the visual display to be comparable to output of camera on-board the RPV.

Okay, now overlay that against the grain we’ve been pushing on the subject of swapping bodies, sensory substitution, spooky identity-at-a-distance effects of ambient intelligent everyware environments, all that good-stuff.

Imagine, for a second, the ability to transmit a human perceiving center through 4D timespace (ie, ordinary reality) via something which looks like this:

Today there’s a guy operating a remote. Tomorrow there’s an operator somewhere jumping in and out of technological bodies, shepherding swarms of intelligent machines in self-organizing patterns in his transidental datawake.

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