http://www.wired.com/2014/08/oculus-rift-birdly-fly/

Yesterday, I flew over downtown San Francisco. I swooped past the
Transamerica Pyramid, taking care not to get speared, and winged it out towards
the water. A heavy fog covered the bay, as usual, so I decided to head back into
the city. I dove sharply, and the wind started whipping across my face. I
slipped under the Bay Bridge, banked hard and promptly slammed into a warehouse.
The wind died, and my screen went black.

I was strapped into Birdly, a full-body flight simulator designed to make you
forget you’re not a bird. “Press the red buttons and pump your arms to start
soaring again,” said Max Rheiner, the Swiss artist responsible for my in-flight
experience this week at Swissnex. The reason that Rheiner could make this
simulator now, and not 20 years ago when he first dreamed of helping humans feel
like birds, is the arrival of the Oculus Rift. The Rift is the first virtual
reality headset with two key features: It’s cheap, and it doesn’t make you want
to vomit. Now that there’s a way to provide accurate head-tracking at low enough
latency to prevent motion sickness, people who were raised on the promise of
virtual reality are starting to experiment.

Thanks to Russ Brown.