The new part here is not the fly glued into a VR rig. Researchers have been doing the VR fly thing for well over a decade! Dickenson was doing this at Caltech

The new part here is not the fly glued into a VR rig. Researchers have been doing the VR fly thing for well over a decade! Dickenson was doing this at Caltech at least in 2008. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/90960/ https://authors.library.caltech.edu/90960/