{"id":131130,"date":"2021-11-23T20:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hands-on-vr-goes-skydiving-at-ifly-the-ultimate-haptic-simulation"},"modified":"2021-11-23T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:22:38","slug":"hands-on-vr-goes-skydiving-at-ifly-the-ultimate-haptic-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hands-on-vr-goes-skydiving-at-ifly-the-ultimate-haptic-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY \u2014 The Ultimate Haptic Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KE1aGDcgbN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflyworld.com\/\">iFLY<\/a>, a leading provider of indoor skydiving facilities, today launched their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflyworld.com\/programs\/virtual-reality\/\">iFLY VR initiative<\/a> which combines the company\u2019s indoor skydiving experience with immersive visuals powered by a Gear VR headset. I got to try to experience for myself at the company\u2019s SF Bay location.<\/p>\n<p>Now available at 28 locations in the US, the iFLY VR experience is an optional $20 add-on to the usual indoor flight experience offered by the company (which starts around $70). After training and getting a feel for stable non-VR flying, customers don a purpose-built helmet which incorporates a Gear VR headset. They can choose between several different skydiving locations\u2014like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland\u2014where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the company\u2019s SF Bay location to try the iFly VR experience first hand, and came away feeling like I got to experience the ultimate haptic simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iFLY, a leading provider of indoor skydiving facilities, today launched their iFLY VR initiative which combines the company\u2019s indoor skydiving experience with immersive visuals powered by a Gear VR headset. I got to try to experience for myself at the company\u2019s SF Bay location. Now available at 28 locations in the US, the iFLY VR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}