I'd love nothing more than to be able to go over to my friend's house, pop on his Vive and sit down and just look at a high resolution panorama of Mars either stitched together from photos or from video capture.
I think if we ever do send a manned mission, someone needs to be sent specifically to act as a videographer and that with what we learn from JPL Mars Helicopter Scout we need to make a bunch of drones to go with the manned mission too purely for video collection for licensing for video games, VR experiences, movie. You could recover all of the cost of the video equipment plus a good deal more just licensing that video out at fair rates because people like you and me would LOVE to see that.
It's always chapped me that we've never had good high resolution photos or video. I get why, tax payers don't care about space and it's a hard enough sell as is so space agencies want to get as much scientific data as they can but argh, even some 720p of the Moon would be amazing.
I think if we ever do send a manned mission, someone needs to be sent specifically to act as a videographer and that with what we learn from JPL Mars Helicopter Scout we need to make a bunch of drones to go with the manned mission too purely for video collection for licensing for video games, VR experiences, movie. You could recover all of the cost of the video equipment plus a good deal more just licensing that video out at fair rates because people like you and me would LOVE to see that.
It's always chapped me that we've never had good high resolution photos or video. I get why, tax payers don't care about space and it's a hard enough sell as is so space agencies want to get as much scientific data as they can but argh, even some 720p of the Moon would be amazing.