Motion Simulator for Home Theater

Dalvenjah FoxFire writes "D-Box, a Canadian speaker company, has designed a system called the Odyssee consisting of four motor-driven actuators that go under your couch and a controller box with a CD-ROM drive for the control files. The controller reads the Dolby Digital bitstream from your DVD player, and plays back synchronized motion effects designed by the company. For about $20,000, you too can add motion simulation to your home theater. They have a list on their site of the movies they've encoded, including The Matrix, Drunken Master, Star Wars Episode I, and more, though it also has an 'audio driven' mode which will work with any source."

Comments

Sweeet!!!

[CyberBill]

This would make porn Soooooo much better!!!!!! -Bill

Just Imagine...

[silverhalide]

I can't wait until they encode Debbie Does Dallas, and other high quality pr0n flicks. As usual, pr0n will take this technology to the next level!!

Re:Just Imagine...

[quitcherbitchen]

This is nothing new. I once went to a hotel where the bed did the exact same thing.

And it only cost a quarter!

potential problem

[evacuate_the_bull]

Does Odyssee only work with action movies?

Absolutely not! While there is no question that Odyssee can add dramatic effects to action scenes containing explosions, car chases and aerial dogfights, you'll find the more subtle effects it can create will add even more to your overall viewing experience. Odyssee adds fun, drama and excitement to everything you watch.

Odyssee will also likely make me spill my beer all over my girlfriend and her $1,000 leather. Yup, that'll add drama and excitement to the night... :)

For $20K

[volpe]

I can hire the neighbor's kid to stand behind the couch and jump up and down on cue, and still have $19,980 left over.

Motion Enhanced Drunken Master

[Marijuana al-Shehi]

For $20,000 I will come to your home theater, put the Drunken Master DVD in your player, and punch you in the face in perfect synch with the on-screen fighting. Now that's reality!

What you are really thinking about

[Zeinfeld]

Pain stimulators? i'm waiting for pleasure stimulators. Then my porn collection would be SO much more enjoyable.

Letsee for $20,000 you can do what? Make the couch vibrate gently. Methinks that the system you are after is gonna cost a whole lot more.

In comparison for roughly $200 you can go get the real thing in a legalized establishment in Nevada. So for the price of your automated bonk-o-matic you can have a bonk a week for over two years.

In Europe of course your capital investment will go a lot further. Invested in an interest bearing account you could engage the Euro 50 services of a window girl 32 times a year - about once every 10 days from the interest alone.

At least that is what a cursory search of the Internet implies.

Of course you may say that it is a real sad type who goes to visit prostitutes, but what does that make the folk using the bonk-o-matic???

Of course life being unfair it turns out that the female anatomy is considerably more compatible with artificial coitus. Examples may be found on the Web. Unfortunately it appears that these guys are rather more interested in the subject from the male point of view. For example one would think that from the pure engineering point of view, solenoids would provide a more effective basic technology for their purposes than rotory motors with sun and planet drives.

Also rather than have the device synchronized to a video track one would think that biometric feedback to determine what types of stimulation are being best received.

Sorry but I don't think I want to put any part of my anatomy into a device of that kind (or for that matter have it inserted into me).

But they are a little bit more interesting than yet another case mod hack.

Re:This is the same old problem

[Zeinfeld]

Who in their right mind spends $2000 on a television? I guess some people do, because I see them carting those huge boxes outside to their car.

Never bought a house then? Thought not.

Buy a house and you will suddenly find that you end up paying the most ridiculous prices for stuff. It is pretty easy to end up paying $2,000 just to hang wallpaper. And as for curtains. And don't think that you have a choice about it since in matters of this type you will be overulled by she who must be obeyed or you won't get sex for three months.

So when you get to this point you will find yourself buying a $2000 TV because doing so is much cheaper than redecorating. And at the end of the day you are going to look at the TV much more often tha anything else in your house.

Pretend you've already got it!

[PanBanger]

You can pretend you already have it, but the only movie you can watch is My Dinner With Andre.

Re:At the very least

[Scratch-O-Matic]

My MSBonk crashed. Now I have the blue balls of death.