The seabed is militarizing. CNBC reports a surge in autonomous underwater drones and sensor nets protecting subsea cables and pipelines — infrastructure carrying 95% of intercontinental data. For devs building the autonomy stack: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM in turbid water — hard problems. For the operators running the consoles: a different hard problem. 12-hour watches. Multiple video/sonar feeds. Each eye often tracking a separate stream. Fatigue degrades fusion, vergence, attention. ...