Bird Notes

A Hummingbird and chalk dust spell out the title and purpose of this experience

Monument Valley

Warning: may cause exhilaration.  You will be flying like an eagle

Light Weights

Small things can spread out their weight to stay in the air. Is this really flight?

Quislings Only: One

What did you learn about gravity and weight, and can you answer this quiz?

What’s Drag?

Unlike a snowflake or dandelion seed, John is going nowhere near slow enough to survive this fall.

Quislings Only: Two

Review why John should have died in the last scene, and why a parachute works.

World of Kites

You think you know where kites were invented and how they work. You’re probably wrong.

Fly a Kite

Tie yourself to a kite in VR and see how an Indonesian kite flies.

What’s a Wing

Soar with a solar powered plane. And John wing walks (sort of) on a 747.

Quislings Only: Three

After John risked life and limb, you should be able to answer this question.

The Magic of Balance

John is still on the 747 wing, to explain balancing forces. Things get slippery.

A Pilot’s View

Climb aboard and see how it’s done. The mechanical part of flight.

Weight and See

A game of guessing and hopefully learning about: the center of gravity.

The Wright Flight

Caution: smiling may occur while hang gliding. And a closeup look at the Wright Flyer.

Duct Tape Required

Things could go wrong as John talks you through firing up a real jet engine.

This Is Only The Beginning

Our experience here is ending, but your journey is only beginning. The universe is waiting.

About

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“Project Origami was designed to explore immersive web experiences through the lens of next-gen human web interaction in use cases across different domains and industries.

We present here an education use case centred on a (randomly picked) theme of flying.

We ask: how might teaching, training or coaching anything, remotely or on site, could be even slightly better in leveraging immersive web technologies such as WebXR. And how it might be benefited if experienced with VR/XR headsets such as Oculus Quest 2.

The ‘Magic of Flight’ premiered here is what I believe the first of its kind, all web, 30 minutes immersive education experience in sixteen episodes that shows what’s possible and what the near future of interaction might look like – if you dare to fly.”

Haggai Goldfarb