I think it would be unwise and unhealthy to put in practive though you guys developped some pretty interesting ideas there, the only way to have a wide field of view would be to stick your face onto your screen (bad for your eyes), also if you have a small screen like me (17inch) and you need to get closer to it briefly to aim, or look at your instruments' readings it would increase the field of view making the instruments smaller as you try to get closer to them for reading.
So although the initial attempt would be to increase realism of point of view, it would really make it less realistic. Like I said before though he actually made some sense this time
, with an interesting idea at first but it comes down to it being a little useless IMO.