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April 29, 2014 07:34 am GMT

Fly Virtually Using This Drone and Oculus Rift Combination

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Mashups of bleeding-edge technology are the lifeblood of innovation, and one team of experimenters may have outdone themselves by combining the Oculus Rift with a flying drone.

Using a DJI Phantom 2 and the hottest virtual-reality headgear on the market, a group from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology created a mechanism that gives wearers a real-time, first-person view from the drone's perspective

See also: This Oculus Rift Game Will Scare the Crap Out of You

The team mounted a pair of cameras to the drone, which allows wearers to look around in any direction, while it hovers in the sky. The drone is controlled by servomotors that move the cameras in the direction that wearers turn their head. Read more...

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