Vortex Optics bullet cam

[42769vette]

I dont know how to post a video on here from facebook, but I just saw this today. Vortex Partnered with Hornady to make a bullet with a built in camera.

Obviously I have no hands on with this, but the video is pretty neat. Personally I think they have lost their minds, but time will tell. There is no point in asking me questions because I know no more about this than anyone who has watched the video.

Your thoughts?

 

[T.Lex]

Wait - is it April 1 somewhere?

ETA Youtube.
[video=youtube;hoGRlS53U_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGRlS53U_k[/video]

 

[jd4320t]

Exactly my thoughts.

 

[Bigtanker]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1573430426018128&id=196963250331526

 

[T.Lex]

The lat/long in the vid resolve (I think) to a Happy Hollow Park outside Milwaukee, with a 4/1/17 post date.

Very much an April fools.

 

[42769vette]

Wait - is it April 1 somewhere?

ETA Youtube.
[video=youtube;hoGRlS53U_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGRlS53U_k[/video]

That was my first thought, because Vortex released something goofy last year on April 1st. I think this is legit because its not April 1st.

 

[Bigtanker]

Wait - is it April 1 somewhere?

ETA Youtube.
[video=youtube;hoGRlS53U_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoGRlS53U_k[/video]

Exactly my thoughts.

I think so also. Look at the date on the guys phone when he is talking about the video uploading to the xloud. It's 4/1/2017.

But for $99 for a box of 10, I'm interested.

 

[T.Lex]

I give it an 7/10. Woulda been higher if there'd been "leaks" in the buildup to it of a partnership for a special kind of round. Also, would've been better if they referred to a tiny windmill-type generator so it could be battery-less.

 

[42769vette]

Im sending an email right now.

 

[jd4320t]

After watching again it looks like a few of them are fighting back smiles for sure.

 

[42769vette]

Here is the inside scoop.

April fools a day early.

 

[Fishersjohn48]

So there is no rifling in the barrels?

 

[42769vette]

So there is no rifling in the barrels?

Very good point. I hadnt thought of that.

 

[T.Lex]

Well you see, with a hard-wired aperture setting and a fixed focal point, there's not enough light in the barrel to make out the lands and grooves. Its designed to see how accurate you can shoot, not how badly you can clean a barrel.

 

[42769vette]

Well you see, with a hard-wired aperture setting and a fixed focal point, there's not enough light in the barrel to make out the lands and grooves. Its designed to see how accurate you can shoot, not how badly you can clean a barrel.

I was thinking more along the lines of the camera wasnt spinning while in flight.

 

[T.Lex]

I was thinking more along the lines of the camera wasnt spinning while in flight.

Fine liquid ball bearings made of smart-metal alloys in the bezel between the tiny camera and the frame. Same thing that tells your iPhone to change the orientation of the camera when you're taking video.

 

[lester]

Wait - is it April 1 somewhere?

That is my response. Could this be real?

If so, this is amazing!

 

[Bigtanker]

Fine liquid ball bearings made of smart-metal alloys in the bezel between the tiny camera and the frame. Same thing that tells your iPhone to change the orientation of the camera when you're taking video.

I was thinking of the camera being weighted and in a bearing. Kinda like the DUB "floaters" wheels. Or the Rolls-Royce center caps if you're on the other side of the tracks.

 

[ljk]

 

[EPeter213]

I was thinking more along the lines of the camera wasnt spinning while in flight.

There is actually software that will stabilize the image and remove rotation, some guys fired a GoPro out of a potato cannon in a 3D printed 'bullet'. Can't remember the URL, but I found it surfing YouTube the other day.