I think I like the idea that I heard earlier, a guy said that he took a baseball cap and sewed some black material (like part of an old tee shirt) to the bill that would be long and wide enough to hang down over the controller after you get the drone in the air away from obstructions so you could fly it looking through the camera.
Sounds like this approach directly contradicts the VLOS requirement of the FAA. The VLOS requirement does NOT say if there are no obstructions ... forget about VLOS.