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05-19-2018, 05:50 AM
Jumping out of a virtual plane is perfect for those who can't or won't skydive IRL
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I've never quite got round to throwing myself out of a plane. Somehow, I wake up every day and find something marginally less terrifying to do with my waking hours and here we are. Jumping out of a virtual plane while floating three feet from the ground and being held by someone standing up, however? That I can get behind.
Which is how I ended up at iFly's new VR experience near Universal Studios in LA this week, dressed in a jump suit, strapped into a Samsung Gear, and floating over Hawaii while bemused tourists wandering the retail center outside the theme park gawped and 'grammed.
SEE ALSO: I hurtled through space on a VR roller coaster and it was intense (https://mashable.com/2016/03/15/virtual-reality-roller-coaster-alton-towers/) Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/vr-skydiving-ifly/)
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I've never quite got round to throwing myself out of a plane. Somehow, I wake up every day and find something marginally less terrifying to do with my waking hours and here we are. Jumping out of a virtual plane while floating three feet from the ground and being held by someone standing up, however? That I can get behind.
Which is how I ended up at iFly's new VR experience near Universal Studios in LA this week, dressed in a jump suit, strapped into a Samsung Gear, and floating over Hawaii while bemused tourists wandering the retail center outside the theme park gawped and 'grammed.
SEE ALSO: I hurtled through space on a VR roller coaster and it was intense (https://mashable.com/2016/03/15/virtual-reality-roller-coaster-alton-towers/) Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/18/vr-skydiving-ifly/)
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