DreamFlyer wins CES award

by mark.avey on November 20, 2007

It’s a busy day for press releases! Dreamflyer have issued the following relating to their newly received CES award:

FMS Flight Motion Simulators Inc.s DreamFlyer Wins Consumer Electronics Show 2008 Innovations Honor Award

New York, NY, November 13, 2007 — The Consumer Electronics Association today announced FMS Flight Motion Simulators Inc. of Kelowna, B.C. as an International CES Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the company’s personal virtual reality flight motion simulator, the DreamFlyer., at the CES New York Media Preview. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press in an effort to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer electronics. FMS Flight Motion Simulator (FMS) won in the Electronic Gaming category and joins other honor award winners in that category.

The DreamFlyer is a personal virtual reality flight motion simulator. The user, while sitting on the chair, balances her/his weight across the longitudinal and latitudinal axis of the chassis and that balancing act generates motions. The sensor/joystick underneath the chair captures the motions/movements and sends the information to a computer loaded with simulation software. The flight simulation software interprets the information and the user sees the results in real time on the monitor. In short, the DreamFlyer captures the motion based on simple gravitational movements of the chair initiated by the user in response to the views on the screen. Most users agree that this experience is extremely close to what pilots feel in the air. By using gravitational force to generate motions, the DreamFlyer has eliminated the need for hydraulics and motors. The Dreamflyer is available for just under Cdn$3,000.