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Discover the Difference. Natural Movement. Natural walking in any direction. Industry Ready. The answer would be to create an omnidirectional treadmill. A company called Infinadeck is working on one, and their approach is interesting:. Howevery, you can undoubtedly see the problems. The two-axis approach they have taken, and a series of motion-sensing challenges, provide significant obstacles to perfecting their device.
Take a look at this existing product, "ball transfer"-style outfeed rollers. Each of those spheres are captured within a housing and can rotate. You'd have to experiment with the diameter of the spheres, their spacing and certainly their coating something rubbery, I imagine? As you took a step and placed your foot down, sensors could deduce which direction you meant to travel in and the motors would instantly activate all of the immediately local rollers, sending your foot backwards, as if moving it down a conveyor belt, while your stride carried you forwards.
You would remain in place but feel like you were walking, and could conceivably do it in every direction. Now if one of you could put in the hard work to actually make this happen, then credit me, that'd be great. We should probably work out some kind of royalty thing too. I guess this is coming from the guy who thought the tethered airplane train was a plausible idea so I shouldn't be surprised.
That image you showed has balls and it doesn't look nearly big enough to be usable as a treadmill. Each ball would need 2 motors, one for x and one for the y axis, as well as sensors. I think Infinideck's approach makes a little more sense Rain, I hate to say it, but that sounds like a more complicated version of what they already made - except now you've got highly sensitive, polished balls driven by motors in an upside-down, quasi-inverted, trackball mouse configuration, and it's being walked on by someone's shoes, tracking all kinds of dust, dirt, and debris onto and into said sensitive trackball configuration, and none of it solves the inertia delay issue.
Sorry, I didn't mean to rant at you. I just think a better solution needs to be one that can get dirty without it ruining the mechanicals. Lets take it and simplify, then simplify again: The balls dont have to be on the floor, they can be on your foot, now u need just a few.
The floor can be shaped as a bowl. So you always roll to the middle. Now the balls dont need to be motorized. Use a slippery sole such as uhmwpe. Now you dont need balls at all. But despite the work of many vr companies including oculus, vr has yet to go mainstream. The problem is not the hardware. Not anymore anyways. By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day. Natural Language Processing. Techopedia Terms. Connect with us. Sign up. Term of the Day.
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