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[–] Sinirlan 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not new idea US Navy is using Xbox 360 Controller in USS Colorado submarine - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/18/17136808/us-navy-uss-colorado-xbox-controller

[–] DanglingFury 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And to operate submarines, and to fly drones, and (in Israel) to drive tanks, etc. When they created the grenade they made it as similar to a baseball as possible so young recruits at the time would already know how to throw them. Similar idea to the controller, lots of young recruits will already have hundreds or thousands of hours of time logged on them, so it minimizes training time.

This was how I knew that the Xbox Series X/S would have backwards compatible controllers. Microsoft has too much government money riding on the previous Xbox controllers for them to change it.

[–] CowardVenus15 8 points 1 year ago

The US Navy uses Xbox controllers for control of the periscope only, not driving the submarine around.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 7 points 1 year ago

That was for efficiency on getting periscope qualified, most recruits already have familiarity with game controllers and it reduces training time since things like zooming with triggers just comes naturally due to the standardization of such things in gaming.

They're wired though, and it's just an input for the periscope system which is otherwise running the same hardware.