When I saw the title I thought for sure this was going to be flappy bird for the Rift.
Birdly – An attempt to fly with Oculus Rift [video]
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#22When I saw the title I thought for sure this was going to be flappy bird for the Rift.
That actually sounds like a great idea.
It exists: http://holdenlink.com/project/floculus-bird/
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#23>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.
That would be really interesting to see, actually: with a tiny bit of projection math it sounds doable, and very trippy, to get the field of view of a side-eyed animal.
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#25I 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?
I 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.
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#26I 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?
But 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.
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#27you awesome marthafockrs! I love that!
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#28I'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.
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#29The reality is quickly becoming obsolete.
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#30This needs to be coupled with the project where you control a quadcopter with a camera attached to it. https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv
While your physical person is in a vertical wind tunnel, like this (mute music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNhaPFvmqVU