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January 25th, 2015, 20:44
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/37cf84a3ea93d5c0e2a6e8428135dcca/201444829/birdlylead.JPG (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/birdly-sundance-vr/)
"People dream about flying." That's what Max Rheiner, creator of Birdly (http://birdly.zhdk.ch/), a virtual reality experience that lets you feel what it's like to fly as a bird from a first-person perspective, said about the inspiration for his project. Rheiner, who's head of the masters program in interaction at the Zurich University of the Arts (http://www.zhdk.ch/?id=378), is showcasingBirdly at Sundance 2015, as part of the festival's New Frontier exhibit (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/sundance-virtual-reality/), which brings creators utilizing unusual mediums to express their narratives under one roof (http://www.sundance.org/programs/new-frontier), each with a different story to tell. In Birdly's case, that medium would be an Oculus Rift headset paired alongside a plastic surface (think of it as an inverted dentist chair) and a fan for the wind effect, creating an embodiment that's meant to spawn a full-body VR experience.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/birdly-sundance-vr/
"People dream about flying." That's what Max Rheiner, creator of Birdly (http://birdly.zhdk.ch/), a virtual reality experience that lets you feel what it's like to fly as a bird from a first-person perspective, said about the inspiration for his project. Rheiner, who's head of the masters program in interaction at the Zurich University of the Arts (http://www.zhdk.ch/?id=378), is showcasingBirdly at Sundance 2015, as part of the festival's New Frontier exhibit (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/sundance-virtual-reality/), which brings creators utilizing unusual mediums to express their narratives under one roof (http://www.sundance.org/programs/new-frontier), each with a different story to tell. In Birdly's case, that medium would be an Oculus Rift headset paired alongside a plastic surface (think of it as an inverted dentist chair) and a fan for the wind effect, creating an embodiment that's meant to spawn a full-body VR experience.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/23/birdly-sundance-vr/