Birdly project: Feel like a bird with Oculus Rift

Virtual reality is becoming more and more real, so to speak :) Now, projects are being massively implemented to introduce a person into virtual reality, so that sensations are as close as possible to reality.

The other day, the University of the Arts Zurich put forward an interesting project that allows a person to feel like a bird. All this is something like 5D, 8D and other similar cinemas, where you, sitting in an armchair, feel yourself like an aviator, now a participant of races, or a visitor of a park with a “roller coaster”. In such cinemas and chairs move, and the water splashes out, and the breeze is felt.
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Well, in Birdly you feel like a bird thanks to the Oculus Rift, the breeze and the wings. True, wooden.

In the process of “flight”, the bed on which the “bird” is located constantly moves; in addition, you can use wings, which allow you to either plan, or fly high into the sky, or dive down.



Of course, this is not the first or the last such simulator, but the video shows us that in such a virtual reality a person can really feel like a bird. And I think that in a very short time something similar will appear in the homes of many of us.

I mean not just this installation, but some kind of system based on Oculus Rift.

Via theverge