{"id":428,"date":"2008-07-28T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/tsukuba-walking-system\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T17:22:05","slug":"tsukuba-walking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/tsukuba-walking-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsukuba Walking System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I said nothing interesting was happening it seems lots of things are spawning !<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlaunches.com\/archives\/immersive_dome_shaped_vr_walking_system_.php\">NewLaunches<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>University of Tsukuba Japan has developed a dome shaped virtual reality walking system for patients patients suffering from a stroke etc. The VR treadmill can accommodate a 80kg person for a walking speed 1m\/sec with strides of 80 cms. The dome has a viewing angle of 270 degrees horizontally and a 60 degrees vertically. The system is not fully developed and is very expensive for hospitals to install.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YmCF7CZL0Ho[\/youtube]\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ka6nwgWt978[\/youtube]\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/images\/tsukuba_walking.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why a simple treadmill is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>And is this curved screen cheaper and\/or more suitable (including development of hard&amp;soft) than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensics.com\/\">Sensics HMD<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtual-eye.jp\/\">Crescent HMD<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakespacelabs.com\/Wide5.html\">Fakespace\u00c2\u00a0 Wide5 HMD<\/a> (of which I haven&#8217;t talked yet but it really rocks!) ?<\/p>\n<p>There must be good reasons, please tell me =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#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":[340,217,86,155,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}