Recreating the feeling of flight using Oculus Rift
There have been tons of great demos and prototypes showing off what can be achieved with the Oculus Rift VR hardware, but Birdly may be the most imaginative we've seen to date. Created by a team at the Zurich University of the Arts, Birdly is an installation, rather than simply a game. Players lie face-down on a platform, and place their arms into wing-like grips on either side. The Oculus Rift then showed a bird's eye view of the world, with a fan providing a "headwind" for the player to breeze through. Birdly is the experience of being a bird, soaring high above the world, flapping your wings to maintain height and speed. The whole set-up relies on sensory-…