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New iFly virtual-reality experience tricks your brain into thinking you’re skydiving
While it’s not an exact re-creation of the daredevil activity itself, the sensations of the wind blowing against a user’s belly combined with the video that shows one plummeting toward Earth at high speeds might help to temporarily trick the brain into thinking it’s actually happening. A switch of a button could also mimic different types of skydiving — from basic free fall out of a plane, to BASE jumping off a cliff, to gliding through the sky in a wing suit.
“We think some of the biggest innovation possible is combining things that already exist in just a really unique way,” said Gaddis.
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