ahhh, I was thinking about this the other day. I knew I had been to a show and see a fusion thingie, couldn’t remember who made it. But I do remember having the exact same feelings as you, only I didn’t buy one. I thought I’d was god awful.The HIK Gryphon thermal monocular has a thermal/optical fusion function where the image from the thermal sensor can be "fused" with the image from a low light mono optical sensor
I have owned one of these monoculars for over 2 years now and I can categorically state that the "fusion" function is the biggest POS I have ever used.
Cheers
Bruce
Now I am at the point of upgrading my e3 X eye, I have to say I really have no idea what to buy. Other than basic requirements, lrf, and changeable 18650 batteries.
NB. I agree that the DNT style is going to be the future of scopes and everybody will be jumping on the Thermal/nv binos band wagon, and , first world problems, I think, aside from a good spec to the thermal (640 min)and Nv (4k min), they have to sort out a way of focusing like a binocular, one hand to do both. That I think is the biggest drawback of these multi spectral devices. ( Nearly said fusion there.) That needs some work.