Professor Bobrow from the UCI Samueli School of Engineering first started the idea of creating a flight simulator chair to be as realistic as possible when flying a plane. Throughout the years, he and his graduate students have worked on it bit by bit and now the project has been handed down to us. We plan on not only finishing what Professor Bobrow started, but also improving the quality of the experience.

Goals
-Improve an existing flight simulator chair to create an immersive flight experience.

Objectives
-Fix the control system so that the overdamp problem can be solved.
-Improve the communications between different components to reduce the response delay.
-Incorporate Virtual Reality to the flight simulator .
-Upgrade the joystick and add pedals to increase the immersive experience.
-Create an easy to use user interface so that with a press of a button or two, users can turn on/off the whole system and change the sensitivity of pitch and row to his or her preference.
-Potentially add yaw to the system depending on how realistic the experience is without one.

Flight simulators have been around for a while but by improving current components, adding virtual reality, and making sure that the data and control signals work together, we hope to produce the ultimate flying experience that is within a person’s budget.

One key issue with virtual reality goggles is that the longer the user is using it, the higher the risk of cybersickness or virtual reality sickness he or she is exposed to. It causes symptoms similar to motion sickness symptoms, where your brain thinks you are doing some kind of intense activity, but your body is actually stagnant. To solve this problem, me and my team want to tackle this issue with a machine that will move accordingly with the user’s experience.