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I often wished for a little drone, equipped with a camera, some other recording software, and wings to do the legwork for me. Imagine sitting on the edge of a swamp, in your car, with a monitor built in your glasses showing you what the drone sees,and ssending it where you want it by moving your fingers. Of course, it can be done without implanting anything in one's head, but generally, people want to carry as little as possible... It would open new eras in waterfowl population research, too.
ETA: thank you all for your answers!
I think tying a drone's video feed into your virtual reality goggles (or a helmet) is a solved problem. If your moving fingers have a joystick under them, then "sending it where you want" is also a solved problem.
I expect commercial kits to be available in 2016, soon after Oculus Rift hits the market.
The real issue is drone's endurance (battery power). By the way, I'm pretty sure military people are doing this already.
About 70% of the way there with this lttile fella: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/lily-robotics-drone/
There a a few quadcopter projects (e.g. AirDog) which are extremely easy to control. Imagne moving them around with a special auto-recogized micro-gesture. The brain apparently can deal with out-of-body-experiences, so you could conceivably 'project' yourself into the drone.