Boston Virtual Reality

Name: Birdly: Conception and Creation of a Full Body Immersive Experience
Start: 2015-12-04T00:00:00Z
Location: swissnex Boston - Consulate of Switzerland

Birdly: Conception and Creation of a Full Body Immersive Experience

Dec 3, 2015 · 7:00 PM
swissnex Boston - Consulate of Switzerland

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 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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Kevin L.

Hi Anja, I'm interested in the same things, but unfortunately I'm in Sydney, Australia. But in this virtual world I don't see that as a disadvantage. I'm a PhD researcher involved in this area and keen to hookup in a group pursuing the same areas, whatever part of the world they happen to be in....Kevin

0 · February 2, 2016
Anja G.

Hi there, I am searching for a VR group interested in 3D modeling, geometry, virtual museums, Boston area. Do you have any tips? Thanks a lot, Anja

0 · November 27, 2015
- Jono F.
  
  Hi Anja, if you're looking for a meetup, you've come to the right place, many of our members work and/or are also interested in those fields! We also hold hackathons for developing new VR, with the next one on the 12th - you'll see it in this group's upcoming events.
  
  0 · December 3, 2015