Tag: Locomotion
IEEE VR 2009
Then after two days of 3DUI, Searis, PIVE and workshops was the actual IEEE VR Conference. For four days the weather was rainy and cold, and finally on the last day the sun woke up and gave us…
Read More »Improved Circulafloor
The CirculaFloor is back ! From this article at BotJunkie : A 5 meter square of area is sufficient for continuous movement in any direction. The tiles also incorporate lifts sufficient to replicate the feeling of climbing stairs……
Read More »Tsukuba Walking System
Just when I said nothing interesting was happening it seems lots of things are spawning ! From NewLaunches : University of Tsukuba Japan has developed a dome shaped virtual reality walking system for patients patients suffering from a…
Read More »Virtual Walk Game Controller
Hum look at that : It doesn’t really seem to qualify as “natural walking”. Ok neither does the Virtusphere, and I can’t comment on the ODT since I’ve never tried it but as they want to study natural…
Read More »Virtusphere review
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to test the Virtusphere for two days and could since watch several beginners try this device. The Virtusphere is a 2.6m sphere of 120kg made of ABS plastic, lying…
Read More »Circula Floor Video
I already had a link to the circula floor video, but now I’ve uploaded it to YouTube so that I can put it in the State of VR – Devices, so here it is again :
Read More »Cyberwalk project
The Max Planck Institute, along with other german and italian institutions, is running a program called Cyberwalk which was first demonstrated in April 2007. Their flyer explains it all : The Goal Un-constrained, quasi-natural omni-directional walking in virtual…
Read More »Omni-Directional Treadmill
I saw on Ray Stephenson’s blog a video of an omni-directional treadmill, commercialized by Virtual Space Devices, Inc. Virtual Space Devices, Inc. has developed omni-directional treadmill (ODT) technology over the last 10 years, working primarily with the US…
Read More »“Stringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual worlds”
Copy paste from this VirtualWorldlets article : The StringWalker is the work of Hiroo Iwata from the University of Tsukuba and will be demonstrated for the first time outside Japan at SIGGRAPH. The walker works by means of…
Read More »VR Shoes
This article from Gizmag talks about VR Shoe that will be presented at Siggraph : “the Powered Shoes effectively cancel the horizontal displacement of the user as they are driven from electrical motors in a backpack worn by…
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