<i>Overall, the scientists compared their torso strategies to joystick control in 39 individuals. They found that torso drone control outperformed joystick control in precision, reliability and with minimal training sessions.</i><p>Until you sneeze, and double over to cover your mouth and send your aircraft plummeting to the ground :P<p>(Also, we're still calling all unmanned, but ultimately human controlled aircraft 'drones'? This is never going away, is it?)
Note that this research was conducted on people with no prior experience of flying drones. An intuitive interface is not necessarily the best interface for skilled users. Do we really want to reduce the (already very low) barrier to entry to flying a drone?
What silliness is this? The tracking system is bound to make mistakes when absolute precision is required. If you really want kinetic control, use the position and distension sensors like in VR gloves.
That could perhaps be as accurate as a joystick.
They are partly using that but add irrelevant cameras.<p>The research is also cheating, torso control uses a VR headset while joystick does not, and responds to head turning while joystick system doesn't. The headgear view is well researched to be important as shown half a century ago in fighter jets.