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Will there be an "engineering look" for our ships? So we can walk around a selected ship in the hangar and see through the ship to see all the various systems?asked by eurowarrior

TL;DRRoberts says an engineering-style view is being discussed through an augmented-reality Mobiglas that could show ship systems, highlight the hull and manage power, possibly linking to the ship HUD and helmet display.

We actually had a meeting earlier today were we were talking about Mobiglas and what it could do. So we're talking about a unified system that will be from Mobiglas, potentially into your ship heads-up-display and if you have a helmet on, your helmet display. The Mobiglas will actually have a mode where you can essentially do what the holotable does, but on the Mobiglas.Then there's some other engineering kind of stuff, you can manage systems, and we were talking about having that happen on your Mobiglas. So you can pull up the different systems on your ship and set them up for different power ratings and stuff like that.I would think that, the way we're doing the Mobiglas is augmented reality, so you would essentially pass the Mobiglas over your ship, then it highlights the hull outline around all the elements that you're thinking about. That would essentially be how you'd see the ship's systems. It will be pretty cool, so there you go.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 11 (2014.03.10)·
Published on this date.10 Mar 2014