{"id":15868,"date":"2020-02-21T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/diving-in-virtual-reality\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:28:18","slug":"diving-in-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/en\/diving-in-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving in virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

A virtual reality<\/a> diving experience simulates outer space as you lie face-down in a swimming pool. Spaced Out punctures gravity to plunge you into a breathtaking journey through the cosmos. A must-see experience at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n

An underwater and space virtual reality experience<\/h2>\n\n

Sundance has quickly become famous for its selection of wild and experimental immersive projects available to the general public. No project is even remotely similar to Sundance’s New Frontier program. Whether it’s an immersive VR play featuring live actors or a multi-person mixed reality<\/a> experience that monitors your breathing with biometric sensors,<\/p>\n\n

This range of state-of-the-art immersive offerings includes Spaced Out. This is a virtual reality scuba diving experience that simulates the weightlessness of space. Users float face-down in a pool, wearing waterproof headphones. It is created by aquatic VR pioneer Ballast using their exclusive DiVR headset. Spaced Out combines VR technology with what the team describes as a “collage of scientific and poetic representations of the Moon”.<\/p>\n\n

A VRScout reporter tested the experience and reports his feelings. “I jumped into the indoor pool and was attached to a bespoke buoy device attached to a weight set at the bottom of the pool. This was to prevent me from floating too far out of position and potentially injuring myself on the concrete edge of the pool,” he explains.<\/p>\n\n

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