Lockheed Martin's CHIL blends motion capture with VR, creates zombie engineers (video)

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Computer-aided design is a great way to build products, but does it
let you bust a funky move while wearing some crazy glasses and gloves?
Heck no. You need Lockheed Martin's CHIL for that. It's the
Collaborative Human Immersive Laboratory, virtual reality goggles and
gloves combined with motion capture enabling teams of engineers to
work together in a virtual space. You can see it in action below, used
first for installing polygonal munitions into a rendered version of
one of the company's F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, then for doing a
little VR tai chi. A Lockheed rep promises that this enables the team
to ensure the plane can be more easily and affordably maintained, but
we just see this as high-tech training tool for the company's world-
renowned synchronized dance teams.