Virtual reality goggles let you simulate skydiving — without falling from the sky

An 18-year-old college student has created a video demonstrating a cool skydiving demo with the Oculus Rift. The video shows how creative developers are becoming with their prototypes of virtual reality goggles from Oculus VR, which has raised a lot of money to make virtual reality the next frontier in gaming. It looks like VR’s comeback might have to do with enabling you to do things you can’t, or won’t do, in real life.

Dan Borenstein of New York told GamesBeat in an interview that he created the video and skydiving rig on a lark, after he saw the cool SkyDIEving demo created by developer nDreams. He said he had friends who enjoyed going skydiving, but he never wanted to try it himself in case his parachute didn’t work. So he hung a harness from a tree and set it up so he could bounce 15 feet off the ground. He stabilized the harness by tying a rope to another tree.