A wireless optical communication receiver is provided. The optical receiver includes an arrangement of wavelength shifting fibres preferably encased within a protective shroud. The wavelength shifting fibres provide an efficient method for capturing photons of light that strike them. Photons may strike the fibres as they first pass through a clear lens in the shroud or may strike the fibres after they are concentrated and focused by an embedded ring or hyperbolic mirror. The wireless optical receiver may be attacked to a mobile vehicle in order to facilitate teleoperation of that vehicle.