The Wait for “Top Gun” Virtual Reality Is Over
You can fly planes like a professional, even if you have no training as a pilot, thanks to another development in virutal reality.
Let’s be honest: Aerial acrobatics are about as badass as it gets. Unfortunately, they’re not too accessible for the average person without the thousands of dollars and years of training it takes to get a pilot’s license in a high-performance plane. But New Zealand company Air Sports Ltd. envisions a world where we’ll all get to duke it out on our computers with actual pilots — and those pilots will be flying real planes in the open air.In the first test flight of Air Sports Ltd.’s Sky Challenge, gamer Ernest Artigas sat on the ground and faced off against two airborne flyboys, completing a virtual obstacle course that was projected into their cockpits.
Airsports has plans to project the images of the course map onto the pilots’ retinas.
Link and video via io9.com,
