Cybercarpet

[XDvictoorXD]

gotta love your dance moves

[MrProductions666]

and thus the moon walk is born

[MichaelKhanTV]

you know what's weird? if you look at his shoes when he's walking it seems slow but if you look down at the view count/or around it looks like he's walking at super speed....

[HolyLight626]

lmao you lost some of your lil balls

[Ryday37]

Real moonwalk.

[77616e6b79]

die Kuegelchen halten nicht so

[bumperboy]

What is the point of it? You don't go anywhere!

[Aphradonis]

@bumperboy That *is* the point. It's for moving freely in virtual reality without moving in physical space.

[Minidude110]

the moonwalk 2.0

[monsterlokote]

so thats how mj got it from

[ThatGuyInTheBasement]

This is how MJ exercised

[superfluent]

L's ín words are highly overestimated :-)

[Maklolm]

The important question is: will it blend?

[superfluent]

@Maklolm No, no bending at all as the underlying structure (the belt corpus) is extremely stiff. I was standing on it myself with more than 100kg and not a millimeter.

[machinmanidol2]

@superfluent the dude just made a joke "will it blend" ... he dont deserve your answer ^^

[wesajarjar]

@superfluent blend*

[ToWi1989]

@superfluent

You should spend some more time on youtube

[Slasher52000]

@superfluent He said blend as in make Smoothies or so on lmao

[masterchief3k]

@superfluent blend, not bend xD

[steviemartin1977]

Just realised, that the gamers of the future may all end up with fantastic athletic physiques.

[steviemartin1977]

Combine this concept with microsofts kinect and some kind of vr headset and you have the apparatus to simulate fully immersive 3d environments. Combine this all with real time data from urthcast or google earth type tech and you may never need to leave your home again........awesome;-)

[jstubbles]

Anyone else hear the Cylon at 0:12 ? ;)

[TessChristiana7]

I want to put this in a room without telling anyone. Troll tool!

[iKnockturnal]

why would you wanna go any other direction than straight on a treadmill ?

[mockhazzard]

@iKnockturnal The technology has many more uses than as a treadmill. For example it can be enlarged and created into a virtual reality game where you actually run or walk on the spot to get around in the game.

[kellark12]

so is there like whole rooms of this stuff so i can run and dive around in a games like ARMA 2? this + a motion tracking gun and some sort of track IR would definatly make my whole life I've actually thought to myself before wow it would be really cool if this is how video games were played in the future, well hopefully i wont be denied.

[Apocolypsolo00]

the moonwalk carpet for dummies

[djteac]

Best moonwalk ever !

[lwanatt]

make sure you release a large 10ftx10ft sort of option on the final release, so people can leap around and roll around corners and stuff with out noticing the real world, you wanna make ur top end model so you couldnt get off the carpet with out powering it down first even if you tired. Im not sure how to prevent idiots from getting stuck and starving to death but im sure you could think of some sort of failsafe, something like 5 rhythmic claps for backup kill switch could do the trick

[Knoss]

@lwanatt most omni treadmills use a suspended harness.

[xellbone1]

the moonwalk for everybody^^

[Hilldebrand]

I'd love to have that as a door mat.

*Ding Dong*

"Jehovah's Witness!"

*Flips Cybercarpet on*

[FunkiiMunkii2]

that would be so much fun to spin around on :D

[12al34]

How do you plan to keep the tiny balls from falling/popping out?

[superfluent]

At the moment gravity is enough (some more details within my publications) but I'd have some kind of special shape of the holes planned if necessary.

[iostream1]

is it multidirectional?

[superfluent]

Absoultely (respect the singularities lateral from the turntable but yes, it can :-)

[88888888Ozzy88888888]

The damn things falling apart! D:

[Unknownspecise]

(just joking around) What if thats how micheal jackson does the moonwalk

[TessChristiana7]

@Unknownspecise I was just thinking that

[silverponylover999]

i dont get it whats with the balls?

[bogfbi819]

cool i can do the moonwalk

[krimerm]

LOL

[superfluent]

Yes, you're right, for this video we acellerated the platform manually, the walker had to adapt to the speed. We wanted to find out when it gets unstable: at 1.4m/s. Due to the size of this prototype it was not possible to control the platform by the feet but we used (very successfully) a small vehicle to simulated the downhscaled walking of a human.

[witchkiller13]

Also , this thing looks as if the speed of its rotation is controlled in gear shifts , and by an external control. The feet do not control the speed and it only has what appears to be slow , med , and fast. Also looks like the speeds are being shifted by the guy behind the camera. Maybe they will prefect this model , because if the new elements are added , it will revolutionize the industry.

[witchkiller13]

not omni directional. this is nice because it is compact and has an ability to be marketed to the public on a massive scale for use in the home. There are much more perfect machines for virtual reality use. The cyberspace omni-directional treadmill is the best concept for VR step simulation mechanics. there is a video here on youtube , just type it in.

[PsychoticusRex]

Why not improve the much vaunted pedestrian-way technology that sci fi authors were always on about? High speed transit in place of rail / road lines. need to know more about the mechanism and if it can scale at all.

[killmie88]

Wozu soll das gut sein?

[johnmotron]

i would hate that carpet in my house i could never get to my tv nooooooooooooooooooooooo

[As23car]

Turn the carpet and the carpet will get you to Tv, without moving :P

[johnmotron]

lol ace idea people should make stuff like that, i buy

[person2954]

man i would just love that put that shit on high at my door step my friends come in they either trip or start running as all hell to get out

[brickdawallz]

what are those black things comming off of his feet at 0:45

[davidah2107]

I Think He Broke It Lmao !

[LSLencrypted]

"Walking test up to 1,4m/s where balls start to flip out. A change in the matrix design or the shoe sole could prevent the balls from flipping out"

Probably this^ they flip out and the machine basically self destructs more or less.

[superfluent]

Basically therese are the first balls which jump out as described. Stability above certain velocities can obly be achieved in some design change of teh matrix. (I's have something in my mind but the project is finished)

A complete destruction of the mtrix as described by LSLencrypted will only occur if you don't propperly adjust the gap between matrix-carrier and belt - good look when seraching all the balls!

[cardinalvengen]

now thats how you moonwalk.

[netapult]

I think the Virtual Walk Game Controller that VirtualProductsLCC is trying to get on the market is a better idea. Feet are suppose to move, not the ground.

[mopar43v3r]

so if that was the carpet in you house, how would u get anywhere?

[Evilman661]

lol good point :D guess you would have to run all the time

[zigerz]

moonwalk!

[HalfPastNoonan]

In the future, only the wealthy have the privilege of walking. In what has become a world of interconnected cubicles and pneumatic tubes, many humans have resorted to utilizing their now unneeded limbs for sustenance.

[navesele]

thats a retarded thing to say

[HalfPastNoonan]

That's not what your mother said.

When I had intercourse with her.

HAHHAHHAHAHAH

[navesele]

was that before or after she told you she has aids?

[affengail]

isnt it strange how some people will resort to insulting their own loved ones for the sake of one-upmanship

[dynastacius]

sad, just plain sad

[jumpjack2]

THIS is a REAL cybercarpet!!!

Astonishing.

Handful.

When can I buy one of these? ;-)

Any link about the technologi it uses?

[jumpjack2]

ops, sorry, description was not completely loaded when I wrote the comment!!!