{"id":5110,"date":"2014-08-29T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/digital-world\/seriously-cool-oculus-rift-vr-headset-connected-to-a-roller-coaster\/08-2014\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:36:20","slug":"seriously-cool-oculus-rift-vr-headset-connected-to-a-roller-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/technology\/seriously-cool-oculus-rift-vr-headset-connected-to-a-roller-coaster\/08-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Cool: Oculus Rift VR Headset Connected to a Roller Coaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simply incredibly cool: students at the University of Kaiserslautern, together with their lecturer Thomas Wagner, connected an Oculus Rift headset to a roller coaster at Europa-Park Rust. Special software was developed for Rift and sensors were attached to the roller-coaster cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This makes it possible to race through a fantasy world on a flying horse, dive virtually in a submarine or experience a space shooter even more intensely. Of course, it was only an experiment. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/08\/29\/oculus-rollercoaster-virtual-shooter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to engadget.com<\/a>, it could become possible in future to ride a roller coaster at Europa-Park itself using Oculus.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More in the video above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply incredibly cool: students at the University of Kaiserslautern, together with their lecturer Thomas Wagner, connected an Oculus Rift headset to a roller coaster at Europa-Park Rust. 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