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Oh wow, I had assumed that night vision goggles would already cover the night vision idea more than fine. And under the budget of this. Night vision things are expensive, though. Impressively so.

The drone things, amusingly, are already price competitive. At least once you factor in the cost of the drone.

>- Drone/robot/telepresence HUD. It would be incredible with stereoscopic cameras

That's interesting, I could see this as part of the security task force for world leaders and such, some extra guys with virtual eyes spread all around and can watch people around corners.

Has the headset been confirmed to work in the dark? It would requires apple to have flood lights on the headset to light up the environment no that the cameras can see.

It has in front both lidar and truedepth camera - truedepth camera has IR flood flights and IR cameras but provide resolution of depthmap 640x480 at 30fps. Unfortunately raw IR camera video stream is not available for 3rd parties so you could only render this VGA depthmap heatmap style.