Ready for a CyberWalk?

Roland Piquepaille writes "Even with recent improvements in virtual reality technology, it's still almost impossible to physically walk through virtual environments. Now, European researchers have started a project named CyberWalk and they'll demonstrate next week their omni-directional treadmill, named CyberCarpet. According to ICT Results, the researchers 'had to address five key issues: providing a surface to walk on, controlling the surface in a way that minimized forces on the user, developing a non-intrusive tracking system, displaying a high-quality visualization, and ensuring a natural human perception of the virtual environment.' The researchers think that their new virtual environments would be used by architects and the gaming industry." Additional details are also available via the project website.

Comments

Get a VR set for my dog

[Anonymous Coward]

and then he'll never need to go outside. He'll get some good exercise too if I can simulate some cats running away.

Re:Get a VR set for my dog

[Ryukotsusei]

And how do you plan to set up a virtual tree for the dog to do doggie business?

Is this slashdot?

[eepok]

Somehow I didn't expect a link to a treadmill to be so quickly slashdotted. O.o