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Birdly – An attempt to fly with Oculus Rift [video]
- judah 12y agoLooks great! I'd love to try this.
- sksixk 12y agowhat am i doing with my life?
- huhtenberg 12y agoI love the fan at the front. What a great touch. I wonder though if this can be done without hydraulics and based purely on a balanced board. So to dive you'd shift forward, the board will tilt and you'll get a sensation of diving. Or will this be too counter-intuitive to control?
- borplk 12y agoThe note about a balanced board is very interesting. I think it would be great. Especially if you are safely and comfortably tied to it so you could dive sharply for example.
- resu_nimda 12y agoI think the problem with that is that, as far as I know, birds use their limbs to control their flight, so the Birdly setup makes sense to me. Kind of inching my body forward or backward on a platform doesn't seem like it would give the right feeling. And how would you pull out of a sharp dive? I'm just imagining someone strapped into this thing face down and tilted way forward, and being kinda stuck there.
- Justsignedup 12y agook look, you wouldn't feel the Gees but its already looking fun.
- kbenson 12y agoBut that would be less accurate modeling of how a bird flies. Imagine yourself under water. You don't just "shift forward", you push on the water with various parts of your body to change your orientation. Flight is similar. This system seem to try to emulate that as much as it can.
- iLoch 12y agoThe best (and only) flying simulation I've ever experienced was on a ride at California Adventure, which was built inside a warehouse. Riders were locked into a seat (rows of about 6) and a projector turns on. Wind starts blowing, as the scenery changes below you. My favourite part of it though was when they tilted the seats back and forth, simulating g-force. Would love to see one of these happen for Oculus Rift, although it's not really a consumer product.
- _cbb1 12y agoThe ride also catches your sense of smell to as well. It's awesome.
- amitparikh 12y agoI love this attraction. They have a duplicate at Epcot in Orlando called "Soarin'". I think an Oculus-concept could also be implemented for "Mission Space", which already simulates g-forces by way of centripetal force.
- stevep98 12y agoMission space. OMG I was so sick after that ride. I really didn't know what I was letting myself in for.
- jobigoud 12y agoThis needs to be coupled with the project where you control a quadcopter with a camera attached to it. https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv
- atmosx 12y agoI was thinking exactly the same thing: What if you could take a 'virtual flight' like this! Bug I guess battery and high-speed connectivity are the problems here. Connections could be through 3G but probably crappy and low-res and costly.
- pyrocat 12y agoWhile your physical person is in a vertical wind tunnel, like this (mute music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhaPFvmqVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhaPFvmqVU
- nathan_f77 12y agoThis has been my dream project ever since I started getting excited about VR, and they've done an amazing job. I really want to experience this.
- unfamiliar 12y ago>The whole scenery is perceived in the first person perspective of a bird. Except that birds eyes are on the side of their head, so what they see is not much like this.
- VikingCoder 12y agoReminds me of the virtual game in "Lawnmower Man." I probably shouldn't link to it, but here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJer9aivOrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJer9aivOrA 23:50 in.
- haptiK 12y agoExactly. That film was the sole reason I got into this field at a young age. Sadly I never followed through with it and chose another tech path. It's really GREAT to see these things becoming reality and its tempting me to change industries.
- cosmotron 12y agoHere's a direct link to the scene: http://youtu.be/zJer9aivOrA?t=23m50s http://youtu.be/zJer9aivOrA?t=23m50s
- ubercow 12y agoWhen I saw the title I thought for sure this was going to be flappy bird for the Rift.
- mrfusion 12y agoDo those motors on the "wings" actually simulate air resistance? For example would it be harder to push down on them coming out of a dive? I guess you could also simulate updrafts and downdrafts, maybe gliding on thermals like an eagle or vulture.
- sopooneo 12y agoI wondered the same thing. Glad to see someone else asked first. I bet that would increase the realism a lot.
- zavulon 12y agoI really love this. With today's information overload and being constantly bombarded by latest and coolest releases, it's difficult to be really excited about anything. But this is awesome and invokes that childhood feeling of awe. I hope when the product comes out, it's just as good as it looks in that demo.
- glassapps 12y agoyou awesome marthafockrs! I love that!
- sixQuarks 12y agoI'm surprised no one has mentioned the cost. I read somewhere they spent around $150,000 to create this. I thought that was extremely costly, but I don't know anything about this kind of stuff, so I'd like to see what you guys think.
- cma 12y agoSeems really costly; you can buy an KUKA industrial robot arm to use as a motion simulator for $50,000: http://hackedgadgets.com/2010/08/12/kuka-robot-arm-turned-into-f1-ferrari-simulator/ http://hackedgadgets.com/2010/08/12/kuka-robot-arm-turned-in...
- branchan 12y agoSource?
- sixQuarks 12y agoTop comment on a reddit link: "They paid 110.000 CHF (=$123 971,65) for that simulator/demo." http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21ljff/worlds_first_bird_flight_simulator_with_physical/ http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21ljff/worlds_first_...
- sssilver 12y agoThe reality is quickly becoming obsolete.
- bglazer 12y agoHas anyone made a bird simulator game? I would pay money for a game that simulates the life of a peregrine falcon or golden eagle. It just seems like it would be incredible fun control a bird of prey chasing down a pigeon.