The Cyberwalk in 100 seconds - virtual reality with perfect immersion

[almightyon1]

Is this treadmill design patented? Gosh I want one for me.

[superfluent]

@Chroma2021 Shperes ha ve 2 severe disadvantages:

- Seamless und undisturbed 3D projection is almost impossible if you don't want to carry a heavy bagpack. Moreover you have to track the persons head throgh the sphere

- The inertia of the sphere has to be compensated by a control mechanism, otherwise you fall over if you stand still or change direction as a giant sphere has quite some momentum. This is also quite difficult as the person has to be tracked though the sphere which is difficult.

[Grognax]

This kind of technology should have been made years ago, why don't we have anything to play with yet?

Also, what do you think of that : watch?v=q97QxnLlDcI

[cywalk]

This is a beautiful piece of engineering work in its own right. What it enables is even more cool. Congratulations to the whole team.

[antiaverage1]

This has nothing to do with head tracking and is the exact opposite of the goals of John Lee: cheap research to benefit the masses. Why is this posted as a response to his head tracking video? Enjoy the 1 star rating.

[superfluent]

The work of JohnLee is amazing - and we tried to look at it from the other way and also had ideas with the wii-controller.

One of the problems we faced was the problem that a vicon tracker costs thousands of euros - the use of accelerometers auch as you can find in the wii would be one low-cost alternative (including some drift but well, the platform and control can handle that). Sure, the camera of the wii-remote can not be used due to the 360° motion.

So thanks for the one star.

[maxell1221]

@superfluent

will the kinect solve the cost issue for the vision trackers?

[superfluent]

@maxell1221

I think that's a good opportunity to get a tracker to get the human motion. But I think it's still too unprecise to generate the image for the 3D view... but more to come in the next years, I'm sure!

[Aphradonis]

@antiaverage1 Headtracking HMDs plus ODTs equal the ultimate currently achievable VR experience.

[Dutchdrummer99]

Very cool.