The Open Virtual Worlds group at University of St. Andrews in Scotland are doing much pioneering work in the area of virtual worlds and virtual reality. I absolutely love their latest ‘hack’ which combines the immersion of the Oculus Rift with the gestural control of the Kinect camera to allow a user to fly around her virtual world with Superman-like ease. It looks like incredible fun but more importantly underlines the added sense of immersion when the user interaction is ‘as 3D’ as the visuals –