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Walking In A VR Future

Posted by timothy on from the see-the-lovely-veldt dept.

neol'schmoe writes "There's a new solution to the age old problem of physical movement within a virtual world. Researchers in Japan have come up with tiles that move in concert with a user's pace and motion to allow free range of motion while literally walking in a virtual environment and never leaving a very small area in the real world."

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  1. X-Men a reality! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Finally we'll be able to walk around just like Magneto! The floor will follow us instead of vice-versa.

  2. This will not go over well with slashdot readers by deft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You think wow, games could be awesome.

    don't forget walking is a form of exercise.

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  3. Take THAT, Moriarty by shufler · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This was the one part of the holodeck concept I never understood. Apparently, they explained how they managed to do it, but if they did, I either couldn't comprehend their fake physics, or it was so stupid I wrote it off as a new writer.

    I always imagined them to be walking around in circles, so I guess this moving tile idea would solve that.

  4. Holodeck by angrist · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Thats one more technical challenge to producing a real working holodeck taken care of. w00t!

    Next up, tactile feedback.
    I'm looking to the pr0n industry to develop that one.

  5. Re:computer, run program mikeylove 1. by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wanna run the Barkley program with the Deanna-whore character, who came off much more conservative and respectable than the real Deanna character.

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  6. Also called a by GillBates0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Treadmill.

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