Helmet-Mounted Sight

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• Full Metal Panic!: The Arm Slaves require the pilot to wear a special headband over their forehead so the cockpit can track their head motions. This in turn allows the pilot to control the facing of the Arm Slave's head by moving their own. Since many models of Arm Slave mount machine guns in their heads, this allows the pilot to direct point defense literally at a glance.
• Macross Zero: The helmet of the prototype VF-0 Valkyrie tracks the pilot's eyeballs in order to acquire targets for the mecha's head-mounted cannons. Presumably, this later became a standard feature, but this is one of only two times in the entire Macross franchise we actually see how it works, with the other being a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment with Ozma in Macross Frontier.

• Deadshot: The Batman villain and a member of the Suicide Squad and the Secret Six has one of these.

• Blue Thunder: The direction of the title helicopter's autocannon is controlled by its pilot's helmet.
• The Empire Strikes Back: Boba Fett's helmet has an "antenna" with a black rectangle at the end that can be rotated 90 degrees to go over the visor. He's seen with it lowered while flying the Slave I, and The Mandalorian also shows that it's part of his jetpack missile's targeting system. In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter it's also used to scan for and mark bounties, complete with a list of crimes and value(s) for bringing in dead or alive.
• Fire Birds: Nicolas Cage's character is a rookie Apache pilot and has trouble learning to use one of these, leading to some... innovative teaching methods on the part of his instructor.
• Half Past Dead: Sascha explains to his friend Frazier how to operate a crashed helicopter's gun using the helmet. When the firefight breaks out, it comes in handy.
• Predator:
  • Predator (1987): The title creature's shoulder cannon moves in synch with its helmet.
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem: The Predator installs a second plasmacaster on the other shoulder, although both are controlled by the same sight.
  • Prey (2022): The Predator changes out the plasmacaster for a device that fires guided quarrels that track based on the helmet-mounted sight. Naru finally defeats the Predator by stealing the helmet and propping it up so that the sight is aimed right at the Predator's head. When the Predator launches a quarrel, it kills the Predator instead of her.

• Riesel Tales: Two Hunters: The holographic consoles of the Salona, the thought-controlled Collapsible Helmet interface of Ramy's elite armor, and the holographic virtual reality bubble for controlling a turret on the Carnivorous Summer Flower. Then there are the optical camo suits Runge and Ramy use in the story Club Gig that also double as hover suits, all controlled by simple movements.

• Airwolf: There are helmet visors that the pilots wear in combat situations. It's a Downplayed Trope, however, because lowering the visor and gaining information from it is only ever done rarely due to the Helmets Are Hardly Heroic effect. There's also Stringfellow Hawke's helmet.

• BattleTech: The Clans' Enhanced Imaging system feeds the input from a mech's sensors into a virtual reality display in the pilot's neurohelmet or implants. The implants offer superior resolution to the helmet-based version but shorten the pilot's life expectancy, so helmet-based EI is more popular, especially with House forces that reverse-engineer the tech.
• Shadowrun: The 4th Edition sourcebook Arsenal has a portable surface-to-air missile launcher that's controlled by a helmet sight, so the user just has to look at what they're trying to hit.

By Console/Platform

• There was a third-party product for the NES, which was a headset-mounted zapper gun.
• A Virtual Reality game like this was at Sega World in London's Trocadero c. 1999.
• Modern flight simulators such as Falcon 4.0 and DCS World have helmet-mounted sights for aircraft that use them for off-boresight heat-seeking missiles or slewing sensor systems; more details can be found in the Real Life section.

By Work

• EVE Valkyrie: It features head-tracked missiles as the most prominent secondary weapon, and it's one of the major reasons why the game requires a VR headset to play.
• Evochron: The artificial horizon display includes two concentric circles—with the inner one having crosshairs— with the purpose of making it very clear where you are aiming your missiles and guns to easier.
• Halo:
  • The UNSC Armed Forces equip its soldiers with neural interfaces in the back of their skulls. One of its many functions is to help identify friend from foe by lighting people up in different colors. The purpose is to prevent friendly fire.
  • Halo: Reach: The Mjolnir armor's helmet also displays a Diegetic Interface with a circle at the center to help with aiming. As in other installments, it lits in red when you point at an enemy.
• Metroid Prime Trilogy: Samus' HMD (helmet-mounted display) allows you to switch between several visor views, including but not limited to visible spectrum (Combat), infrared (Thermal), backscatter X-ray (X-Ray), dark energy (Dark), and ultrasound (Echo). Another specialized visor mode (Command) allows her to remote-control her ship to bomb, hoist or land on whatever she's looking at. Not to mention the Scan Visor, which allows her to analyze just about anything in the game, and, presumably, allows her to hack computers just by looking at them.
• Overwatch: Soldier 76 wears the Tactical Visor. When activated for his ultimate, a red holographic display shows him exactly where to aim for the best shots, making all of his attacks in-game hit the target regardless of aim.
• Pacific Drive: The Mechanic's Eye is a helmet-mounted Augmented Reality device that, on top of displaying a HUD interface full of Status Lines, also has some visual elements to help guide your aiming.
• SWAT 3: The HUD is digital readout on your character's helmet that features crosshairs representing some weapon's ironsights, as well as optical crosshairs to help you with aiming.
• Team Fortress 2: The Virtual Reality mode can use the player's headset to aim weapons.
• Wing Commander: Prophecy allows you to fire and control missiles thanks to a cueing system integrated onto the pilot's helmet and visor.

• DEATH BATTLE!: Conversed as one of the Predator's assets during a potential battle against Boba Fett.

• SWAT Kats: This is how Razor, and sometimes T-Bone, fires the cement machine gun aboard the TURBOKat.

• US helicopter gunships since the early 1980s have used the IHADSS system, which can not only aim a laser designator for the AGM114 laser-guided antitank missile but also aim an autocannon in the powered turret under the helicopter's "chin".
• The first widespread implementation in a fighter aircraft was the Soviet MiG-29 "Fulcrum" in The '80s. This caused some alarm within NATO after they discovered how effective they were from ex-GDR examples of that plane, particularly in combination with the R-73/AA-11 heat-seeking missile. The US Air Force and Navy, who had been rolling them out rather tentatively until this point, were quick to catch up.
• The F22 and F35 are/will be equipped with these. Several attack helicopters are equipped with them as well. Specifically, these aircraft, along with several older U.S. fighters like the F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 will be made compatible with the new Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System, which when combined with the new AIM-9X model of the Sidewinder allows for some absolutely gratuitous stunts involving Roboteching.
• A purely peaceful version is the Newton Cross Sight, which is used to aim a helmet-mounted camera, enabling the operator to properly frame climbing, skiing, or other extreme sports activities while right in the middle of them, while also leaving both hands free and keeping the operator's field of view largely unobstructed.