How Location Based VR Can Be A Boon For The Adrenaline Junkies

Ever imagined how it feels like jumping off from 15,000 feet and finally landing at the beautiful Palm Jumeirah in Dubai? It would be quite an experience eh? But most people refrain from doing that for obvious reasons. Either they are scared of heights, don’t want to risk their lives or they are skeptical about spending a fortune on the dive.

Well, the good news is that now all these factors won’t even matter. Lately, the Data Scientists have made some tremendous advancements in the field of Location-based Virtual Reality owing to which it is now possible to experience the instances like Skydiving without actually having to do that.

Few months back, the iFly skydiving centers in the US have started offering VR glasses to their customers to provide them a realistic experience of flying over specific locations like Hawaii, Dubai and San Diego. The VR glasses are attached to the helmets of the customers and create an illusion of jumping from a plan like a skydiver.

Previously, the customers were only able to see the wind tunnel during their past experiences where they actually fly. But now with VR glasses, it’s completely going to transform their experiences and provide a dream-like escapade. This has been made possible with the advent of location-based virtual reality and it’s all set to take the whole world by storm soon enough. This sort of experiences will soon be available at around 28 locations of iFly in the US.

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What Is Location Based Virtual Reality

The location-based VR is revolutionizing the standard VR experiences all over the world with its flabbergasting aspects. The free-roaming VR when combined with the Hollywood’s motion-sensor tracking technology, provides an outstanding virtual world to the users where they can actually walk like it’s for real. That’s what the location-based VR can do! It enables immersive VR experiences with location-based accuracy. This technology is being widely used at various Shopping Malls and movie theaters these days.

As a matter of fact, the location VR is quite similar to the normal in-house VR experiences that you might have encountered. The only difference is that in location VR, a third element is added i.e the actual location. In other words, you get a themed space to walk through and interact with realistic three-dimensional elements along the way. You can not only see this space through your eyes but you can also feel the elements as if it’s all happening for real. All this is done by perfectly synchronizing the VR space around you with what you’re seeing on your headset.    

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Some Other Applications

In the exact same way, the location-based VR can be used to create the illusion of a user traveling to a remote location, a tourist destination, a concert from the past or even outer space. You just have to establish a real-time connection between the VR elements around you and your VR headset. Well, of course, it’s not a cakewalk and can cost you a fortune to set up such an environment, but with some advancements, it can be really worth the efforts that go in creating such environments.