I guess it might also make sense to put a camera on an extension to look around corners without having to advance the vehicle to where it can be shot at...
?: Could the Oculus be used to let humans control humanoid robots? I guess so. Could humans perform experiments using such robots? Probably. Could Oculus be used to control these robots on the ISS? I guess so. --> Finally we eliminated the last need for humans in space!!! :-D
(Maybe we could replace humans on Earth with robots that control one another through Oculus Rift...)
"Collider is an arty audiovisual experience that provides a first-person perspective of a particle hurtling through the Large Hadron Collider"... with the use of the Leapmotion sensor and Oculus Rift hmd. Come to my desk if you wanna try it :) (not that fun actually)