Birdly: Conception and Creation of a Full Body Immersive Experience

The Birdly VR flight experience shows you what it is like to fly like a bird and demos are available all week. If you'd like to learn more about the design, please come to this lecture by Max Rheiner, Zurich University of the Arts.

Birdly is an installation which explores the experience of a bird in flight. It captures the mediated flying experience, with several methods. Unlike a common flight simulator you do not control a machine with joysticks, a mouse or thousands of buttons: you intuitively embody a bird, the Red Kite. To evoke this embodiment Birdly mainly relies on sensory-motor coupling. The participant can command the installation with arms and hands which directly correlates to the wings (flapping) and the primary feathers of the bird. Those inputs are reflected in the flight model of the bird and displayed physically by the simulator through nick, roll and heave movement, Birdly started as an art/design research project at the Zurich University of the Arts, which evolved to a startup company. Max Rheiner, Lecturer and Designer of Birdly will show how he and his team started the project and what methods they used to explore the field of full body immersion.

This event contains a lecture only. Birdly will be on display and in operation at Le Laboratoire Cambridge (http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/) between December 2nd and December 5, 2015. Please check our website for full information on Birdly and for exact hours of operations: http://www.swissnexboston.org/event/birdly

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