A virtual flight into the future of aviation

Waxeye has been working with Wisk since 2018 on creating simulated VR flight experiences, starting with a 360VR filmed flight over Central Otago in the Gen 5 aircraft. Fast forward to the Gen 6 experience, and the ambition had grown. With the aircraft still in development and interest building across multiple international markets, Wisk needed a way to bring the experience to their audience, wherever that audience happened to be.

Rather than a concept flyover, we built the experience around actual downtown-to-airport routes in Houston and Brisbane. The familiar skylines helped truly immerse passengers in Wisk's air taxi vision.

The visuals use real-world 3D terrain layered with authentic satellite imagery, supplemented with our own modelling for near-field assets and the aircraft's takeoff and landing vertiports. The result holds up under close, moving scrutiny from the air.

The mixed reality component of the experience opens with a scaled-down aircraft landing on an interactive platform, playing an animated sequence that showcases the aircrafts key features. Users can then scale the aircraft to 1:1 and walk through the cabin itself.

A carefully crafted 3D digital twin of the interior concept puts users right in the passenger seat, giving them a genuine sense of what it feels like to fly in a Wisk air taxi.

Both experiences run natively on Meta Quest 3, giving stakeholders a single, self-contained way to move from flying the route to exploring the aircraft in mixed reality. The whole thing fits in a backpack, ready to deploy on the fly at investor meetings, community briefings, or trade show floors. No site visits, no logistics, just Wisk's vision, wherever it needs to go.