{"id":341,"date":"2007-06-28T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/omni-directional-treadmill\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T20:19:07","slug":"omni-directional-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/omni-directional-treadmill\/","title":{"rendered":"Omni-Directional Treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/stephensonweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=15\">Ray Stephenson&#8217;s  blog<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsd.bz\/ODTVideo.wmv\">video of an omni-directional treadmill<\/a>, commercialized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsd.bz\/\">Virtual Space Devices, Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs[\/youtube]\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsd.bz\/iPlane.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsd.bz\/ODT.General.gif\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsd.bz\/ODT.GenTwo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virtual Space  \t\t\t\tDevices, Inc. has developed omni-directional treadmill (ODT)  \t\t\t\ttechnology over the last 10 years, working primarily with the US  \t\t\t\tArmy. Combining the infinite plane of the ODT with an immersive  \t\t\t\tvirtual reality system permits an immersant to walk or run  \t\t\t\tfreely through the digital landscape. Navigation is transparent  \t\t\t\tand natural. Immersion is total.<\/p>\n<p>The ODT surface  \t\t\t\tis flat and continuous. It is not a bowl or made of discrete  \t\t\t\tplates. The infinite surface is motion-slaved to the user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  \t\t\t\tmotion with tight control and no inertial residue. Belts that  \t\t\t\tcomprise the surface are substantially similar to those used in  \t\t\t\tconventional treadmills.<br \/>\nFirst  \t\t\t\twork on omni-directional treadmill (ODT) technology began with a  \t\t\t\t$400K US Army STRICOM contract in 1996. (&#8230;)<br \/>\nSecond-generation technology is  \t\t\t\tlarger, faster, and quieter. We are building multiple units<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information in this <a href=\"http:\/\/citeseer.ist.psu.edu\/562472.html\">article<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/citeseer.ist.psu.edu\/rd\/58026663%2C562472%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload\/http:\/\/citeseer.ist.psu.edu\/cache\/papers\/cs\/27420\/http:zSzzSzwww.npsnet.orgzSz%7EdarkenzSzpublicationszSzODT-UIST97.pdf\/darken97omnidirectional.pdf\">pdf<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This may be an alternative to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtusphere.com\">Virtusphere<\/a>. Wondering what the price range is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw on Ray Stephenson&#8217;s blog a video of an omni-directional treadmill, commercialized by Virtual Space Devices, Inc. [youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs[\/youtube] Virtual Space Devices, Inc. has developed omni-directional treadmill (ODT) technology over the last 10 years, working primarily with the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[262,217,162,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}