i'm sure you've heard of VR. It's absolutely everywhere. but have you heard of VR where you can walk infinitely, in any direction? the Infinadeck, the Virtuix Omni, and Spacewalker are famous for this concept. but what if there was another way to do it without having to throw out $700?
instead of needing a $700-1200 high-tech suspension system with a treadmill underneath your feet, you just need a chair and a rug. which, in fact, this does come with. It works by having the whole treadmill system in a strap-on device that you slip on your shoes. isn't that the most practical, low-cost virtual treadmill you've ever heard of? is this real??
A little bit more immersive than using a joystick, but desu who the fuck want to be waling in real life to move in game. Even standing and flailing your hands for longer time is tiring. Imagine walking across the map in Skyrim, it's like walking a marathon
Kayden Long
nice shilling
Christopher Lewis
Tru dat. Just wait a decade or two for full dive systems.
Kevin Brooks
Nice to see ideas coming out, it would be better with 360 rolling and a higher chair at a bit of a tilt that you strap on, my own Omni I built takes up half my downstairs garage and is noisy as hell
Kevin Sanchez
It's going to be way longer than a few decades for Overlord/SAO tier dive systems. I don't know why people keep bringing that shit up.
Julian Murphy
Almost all treadmills are shit. You really need a wide area that supports full 2D motion. This stuff is literally only good for walking simulators, anything with action in it where you might want to make sudden and unpredictable movements is not gonna work and is gonna feel clunkier than a joystick.
Levi Thompson
I'd certainly give it no more than a few decades, considering the scale of the contracts that darpa is giving, and the deadlines they're targeting. Fully functional artificial limbs (with feedback) by 2023 with non-invasive BCIs. And at that point its just a matter of scaling low-invasive BCIs (also part of the contract, for per-neuron manipulations) to give enough connections for other senses.
Dominic Morgan
Back in the days when I worked on simulators I was told motion sickness was mainly a problem for females.
I can see Slashdot being a shilling arena, but Jow Forums??
Adam Peterson
>neat leddit m'sir
Blake Evans
>*hits wall* You'll be consciously walking in place because it's in your interest to do so
Aiden Barnes
All these new VR peripheral startups are DOA. Adoption is hard enough as it is with the low user base for what is currently an enthusiast product. No developers are going to support these shits en masse.