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by wanderingmoose 327 days ago
I remember seeing a very similar system at wright-patterson afb in ohio that was used for a flight simulator. The model was mounted vertically on a wall and at a much smaller scale. This was in the early 80's and it was no longer in use. But the model detail was incredible. They had the camera hooked up to a monitor and seeing the camera "fly" through the scene at an appropriately scaled speed was amazing -- even on a tv screen. You could see the camera moving over the model...but on the monitor the view looked real.
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The Swiss had similar systems for training tank crews.

https://www.festungsmuseum.ch/fasip/

Tom Scott got to play in such a tank sim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcQifPHcMLE