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VR-HYPERSPACE – FLIGHT COMFORT IN VIRTUAL REALITY
Does this sound familiar? After a long check-in procedure
you are finally sitting in your assigned seat on the aircraft. But the seat is
too narrow, the foot-well is too tight, you have neighbors using both armrests,
and the family with small children in the row in front increases the noise
level considerably. If only there was a way to hide the environment or perhaps
even create an illusion of comfort and relaxation! This illusion could soon
become a reality, leading to a significant improvement of airline passenger
comfort. Working together with seven other partners across Europe, scientists
from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and the
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart within the project
"VR Hyperspace" hope to realise this vision. This research project,
which could transform airline passenger comfort, is led by The University of
Nottingham in the UK.