Last year at Google's I/O developer conference in San Francisco, founder Sergey Brin gave what's been called the "mother of all demos," a keynote speech that involved a team of skydivers wearing Google Glass landing on the roof of the conference center as he spoke. For this year's I/O taking place next week, Google wants to one-up that by putting I/O attendees in virtual parachutes and letting them skydive anywhere on Earth.

Google and a partner company have posted new videos showing off an incredibly immersive new skydiving simulator they developed, nicknamed "Map Diving," which displays views of Google Maps on seven gigantic screens, and lets control their fall to the virtual ground simply by moving their bodies as they would if they were really skydiving.

Correction: A previous version of this post said that the Map Diving simulator relied on Microsoft's Kinect for the motion controller aspect, but Instrument informed us that this is incorrect, it actually only uses Asus motion control technology.