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  • Get Your Virtual Wings: Oculus Rift Machine Simulates Flight

    [ By Steph in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ]

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    Feel the wind on your face and smell the pine sap of the forest as you gaze down at the scenery far below – without ever leaving the ground. ‘Birdly’ is a new machine developed by the Zurich University of the Arts that simulates flight using an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, a motor-powered machine that mimics flying movements, a fan to fake the feeling of wind and even olfactory feedback tailored to the landscape of your choice.

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    The creators studied the movement of the Red Kite bird and translated it to a sensory-motor coupling that enables you to flap your ‘wings’ as if you’re really flying. The movement of your arms directly correlates to the flying sensation you experience through the Oculus Rift headset.

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    Once strapped in, you’re embedded in a virtual landscape as if you were the Red Kite itself for the closest possible simulation of flight that’s possible without ever actually going into the air. The faster you go, the stronger the air pushed out by the fan positioned right in front of your head.

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    While it’s easy to imagine Birdly becoming a fixture at amusement parks, so far, it’s just an art installation, with no plans for commercialization. The creators say there are a few tweaks still needed to keep users from getting sick during the flight experience. This device is just the latest in an intriguing line of creations using Oculus Rift to bend reality, like a recent Gender Swap experiment that allows the user to switch to the point of view of someone of a different gender.

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  • Bigger than life: Drone flight documents Alaskan ice caves

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    The 12-mile long Mendenhall Glacier, located just outside of Juneau, Alaska may be one of the world’s most easily accessible glaciers. But the crew of Firefight Films takes you far beyond the parking lot. Billed as the first documented drone flight through ice caves, Firefight Films’ co-founders, Lion El Aton and Christopher Carson, outfitted a DSLRPros DJI Phantom with a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition to venture beyond the physical limits of a human film crew. See video

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  • In Flight – 36 Images of Identified Flying Objects

    Last week was cars, the previous week – boats. So this week I’ve found 36 fabulous images of all sorts of objects in flight: airplanes, kits, birds, people?

    Look up – look way up. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a kite, or person?

    By Kuster & Wildhaber Photography

    By Geoff Collins

    By Andreas.

    By Linh Nguyen

    By Geoff Collins

    By Kim Seng

    By Eddy Van 3000

    By Neil Howard

    By Peter Roome

    By ecatoncheires

    By Doug

    By Cornelia Kopp

    By Clark & Kim Kays

    By Ali Arsh

    By Nick Kenrick

    By Datmater

    By Niels Linneberg

    By Brett Davies

    By Lotus Carroll

    By Hartwig HKD

    By Andreas Levers

    By Bill Gracey

    By blinking idiot

    By Brian Wilson

    By Tal777

    By Dave Scriven

    By Official U.S. Navy Page

    By Michael Napoleon

    By nigel

    By mommamia

    By Chris Smith

    By TexasEagle

    By Phil

    By RayMorris1

    By Joel Olives

    By Lisa

     

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  • FLight Pollution

    FLight Pollution – Stars and Satellites and Planes, Oh My!

    When looking up in the night sky it can be an awe inspiring experience, but it can also be alarming. While many people focus on light pollution being an issue an equally alarming issue is FLight pollution (Flight + Light = FLight pollution). This doesn’t get much attention primarily because few photographers photograph and present sequences of images to highlight the problem. While much of my time  is spent cloning plane and satellite trails out of my fine art star trail photography, I thought it would be good to share what the night sky actually looks like over 90 minutes. As you’d imagine there are a good number of flights that pass overhead in 90 minutes and at night you can see them all.

    Location Info:

    This particular photo was taken of the Minarets in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Mammoth Lakes, CA.

     

    Copyright Jim M. Goldstein, All Rights Reserved

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  • Transportation planner creates beautiful visualizations of flight patterns

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    Michael Markieta, a transportation planner at global engineering and design firm Arup, has created a series of beautiful visualizations of aircraft flight paths as they span the globe. Using different shades for short and long-distant flights, the images map the world in a ghostly spiderweb of connections from airports small and large. Markieta has marked more than 58,000 flightpaths and the results are stunning. Click through for images (via BBC.co.uk)

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  • Flight Facilities – Crave You [7th Sway – Cover]

    Feel free to download the MP3 here : www.mediafire.com Vocal – Adinda S. Bass – Alvin Guitar & Back .Voc – Marchella Cajon – Dipta Guitar & Vocal – Dika
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • elsewhere – Flight Facilities ‘Foreign Language’ Tour

    elsewhere – Flight Facilities ‘Foreign Language’ Tour Flight Facilities at elsewhere on November 11, 2011. Track – Flight Facilities – “Foreign Language” Filmed and edited by Tori Jackson
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Yes, I do – Flight of fancy


    Yes, I do – Flight of fancy, originally uploaded by NaPix — Hmong Soul.

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    Any and all use of these images requires the owner’s express permission.

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  • Stereosopic 3D flight round Mt St Helens Created in Terragen

    I used NASA Height maps, Terragen to render the image and Sean O’Malley ‘StereoScopic’ to render the 2nd view for 3D. It’s presented in cross-eye format

  • Flight 1549 Alternate Audio, Multi-Perspective Composite Animation

    project homepage: www.exosphere3d.com This video presents the alternate audio tracks and does so by splitting to L and R channels. The audio presented is: LaGuardia ATCT Cab Coordinator, LaGuardia ATCT South Terminal Control, New York TRACON South Control, and Teterboro ATCT Local Control position Radar data is displayed in the upper right quadrant with aircraft identification and altitude (100’s of feet). The audio transcripts of the aforementioned audio tracks are displayed on screen for nearly all communications from the mentioned audtio recordings. Continuity is maintained with the audio transcript display, however the audible tracks are faded in and out and selected based on perceived importance to the accident timeline. This combination of information is not a likely candidate for final presentation because of information overload. However, it does illustrate the usefulness and capabilities of a fully integrated reconstruction technique. The birds showing up on radar: www.youtube.com The other version of this video: www.youtube.com “brace for impact”
    Video Rating: 4 / 5