Tanks, submarines, and bomb disposal robots are among the vehicles operated by powerful militaries that use off-the-shelf gamepads.
While critics of the company behind a missing submersible that regularly dives to the Titanic shipwreck have called out its use of an affordable off-the-shelf game controller, several military vehicles use similar gamepads.
Although many aspects of the Titan’s design have been criticized for being inadequate for its dangerous 3,800-metre dive, many online users have been fixated on the game controller.from CBS Sunday Morning featured OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush showing a journalist that the Titan is controlled with a slightly-modified Logitech F710 wireless gamepad.
The latest official Xbox wireless controller currently sells for between R1,299 and R1,499. Several generic knock-off models are available for less than R1,000.
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