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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

Tom Scott · Youtube · 26 HN points · 1 HN comments
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At the Swiss Military Museum in Full, there's the last remaining example of a 1970s tank-driving simulator. But there's no virtual worlds here: it's connected to a real camera and a real miniature model. ■ More about the museum: https://www.festungsmuseum.ch/

Camera: Tobias Buchmann
Producer: Sebastian Capeda at Viven https://viven.ch
Editor: https://www.davestevenson.co.uk/
Audio mix: Dan Pugsley https://cassinisound.com (my microphone failed inside the very noisy simulator, he did an incredible job!)

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Nov 19, 2022 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by low_tech_punk
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Oct 27, 2022 · stronglikedan on Time.gif (2017)
> streaming a model railroad you could drive

Reminds me of this tank simulator from the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE

⬐ KingOfCoders
I saw that too! :-)
⬐ acidioxide
Interesting! It's so funny when he says that the computer was too old to maintain so they replaced it with raspberry pi - it's weird such big thing can be controlled by something so small
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Oct 27, 2022 · 2 points, 1 comments · submitted by socialdemocrat
⬐ socialdemocrat
Interesting video of how the Swiss created a tank simulator in the 1970s without computer generated images, but by using a camera in a miniature landscape.
Oct 24, 2022 · 4 points, 0 comments · submitted by Element_
Oct 22, 2022 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by daneel_w
Oct 21, 2022 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by cameron_b
Oct 20, 2022 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by sosuke
Oct 18, 2022 · 3 points, 0 comments · submitted by vinnyglennon
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Oct 17, 2022 · 7 points, 1 comments · submitted by reteltech
⬐ jbaczuk
And here we are thinking we need 5 levels of web frameworks to get anything done...
Oct 17, 2022 · 4 points, 0 comments · submitted by protomyth
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