"As part of Australia's largest hackathon, Hackagong, one team has combined a GoPro, Oculus Rift, laptop and Twitch.tv to allow users and the Internet at large to play a human in 3rd person," the video's description reads.
"The wearer sees their world from the 3rd perspective, while the Internet sends them commands which display as overlays in the Rift. Kind of like playing yourself like a GTA character, while the Internet controls you via commands."
The Hackagong website explains the concept behind the event.
"Hackathons originated in Silicon Valley and are now regularly staged all over the world as a way of rapidly producing ideas and building prototypes. They follow a basic structure -- developers, designers and business people form small teams with the goal of designing and implementing a digital product or service prototype to be demonstrated at the end of the event. The lack of time participants have means methods of working can often be chaotic and require 'hacking' solutions together, hence the term Hackathon."
