While the Titan submersible, undergoing tourist exploration in the Titanic wreckage, has been missing since June 19, netizens are surprised that the machine is piloted with a slightly modified Logitech G F710 wireless gamepad that costs 40 euros to buy, reports the half. Vice.
“We make the entire submarine work with this gamepad,” Stockton Rush, the CEO of Oceangate – the company that runs the submarine – explained very seriously during a program broadcast last December on CBS Sunday Morning.
Since the disappearance of the submarine, netizens have mocked the use of a video game controller on Twitter.
But digging a bit, this practice is not so surprising, since it is increasingly common for equipment, including the military, to be controlled by video game controllers or that are directly inspired by them. Both because they are very manageable and because young soldiers are used to having them in hand.
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For example, the US Navy is implementing Xbox controllers on its submarines to replace the tools used to steer the masts that are considered too cumbersome. The US Army’s M-SHORAD combat vehicle is equipped with a joystick that looks like an N64 gamepad. As another example, the Challenger 2 tank artillery also looks like a gamepad.
The search for the submarine continues. The French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) sent in particular the Victor 6000 robot that can descend to a depth of 6000 meters.
Source: BFM TV
