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It's been a dream of humans to fly through the sky at least since the time of Leonardo Da Vinci. Although we now have jetpacks and wingsuits, there wasn't a way for us to experience the sensation of flying between skyscrapers until now. This is Birdly, a virtual reality flying simulator that, unlike Red Bull, actually gives you wings. People were seen flapping virtual wings on Birdly at the 2017 SXSW festival on Wednesday. Birdly, the full-body virtual reality flying simulator, combines VR, music, and a wind generator to create the sensation of flying. Users flat their arms on the machine to flap wings in the simulation and generate lift. The idea for Birdly was conceived for a research project at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2013 and it was brought out onto the market in December 2015. How would you like to be free as a bird?
A consumer-ready version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is finally arriving on doorsteps, but it costs a pretty penny at $600. iFixit disassembled the headset to gauge repair costs. The first pleasant surprise comes when removing the built-in headphones which can be unscrewed for easy replacement. There’s a thin plastic cover over the lenses and internals of the Rift, but it’s just held in place by a few easy-to-remove clips. Inside are two displays, each one secured to a lens housing. Each lens assembly can slide left and right so you can adjust for interpupillary distance. The only truly unrepairable part of the Oculus Rift is the head strap, there’s no way to remove it without cutting through the fabric on the headset.
YouTubers live or die based on the interests of their audiences. The shift toward VR could potentially impact them even further. Relating that part of the problem with VR is technical, Youtuber Drift0r said, “My VR video underperformed. It was incredibly hard to film because it’s not forward-facing. It captures the entire room, everybody’s shoes, lights everything.” Drift0r says that phones are really the future when it comes to VR. “Mobile phones now have roughly the same power as an Xbox 360. Imagine two or three years from now, phones will only be faster with more resources toward gaming. There will be impressive mobile games, VR mobile games.”
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