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Omni-directional treadmill: a step forward in VR



This omni-directional treadmill represents a massive step forward in designing and developing virtual worlds. With the help of a VR head-set you can wonder around a virtual world, and get the feeling of the real thing! Amazing!

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Comments for Omni-directional treadmill: a step forward in VR

RegSpyder

I normally hate the automatic cry of FAKE!, but in this case it's an obvious one. It's obviously just a framework on casters with the camera on the inside, covered in blue plastic, moving round inside a gym on a wooden floor.
posted by Guest at Friday, August-10-2007 00:03am

This DOES NOT look omni-directional...

It only seems to work when he moves forward and back, but if he tries to move left or right it looks like it only tolerates it for a second by moving with a spring.... This isn't omnidirectional, since that wouldn't make sense, it's just loose in the direction you normally couldn't walk..
posted by Guest at Friday, August-10-2007 08:47am

Inventor Response

You guys are such non-believers. There is another video that shows it a bit better. Search "Cyberspace Interface" on YouTube.

As the inventor of this technology, I can vouch for its effectiveness. It's covered by two patents, with one pending, and the US Army has invested millions in its development. Check out my web page at www.vsd.bz. Search any patent database.

The ODT is a treadmill made out of mini-treadmills. What's really cool is that you can combine it with a virtual reality system and run around cyberspace.
posted by Guest at Friday, August-10-2007 16:14pm

Untitled

I want to see him run on it
posted by Jonathan at Saturday, February-16-2008 22:29pm

To the 'inventor'

If its real prove it. Provide us with links to all the things you mention in your post and you might be taken seriously. Posting anonymously doesn't help either.
posted by mandrill at Sunday, March-23-2008 13:33pm

To the skeptics to lazy to look

I'm not the inventor but here's the link to the patent for the lazy naysayers. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5562572.html

Also, if you had gone to the link he gave already (http://www.vsd.bz), you could see the truly simple design. Looking at the design, you can also see why certain directions do not react as quickly as the direction perpendicular to that.
posted by KnowledgeNinja at Monday, April-07-2008 05:20am

a flaw

a flaw in this design is that due to to the complicated motor systen this is sopoused to have this treadmill couldent react quickli enought to follow a person at running speed and if it did it coudent even stop fast enoght to prevent the person from being slamed into the wall,pardon my spelling,english isent my first language
posted by John at Friday, September-26-2008 04:34am


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