Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Virtual Reality Cocoon Being Designed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the holodeck-in-a-gerbil-ball dept.

gurps_npc writes "CNN reports that a company called 'NAU' is working on an Immersion Cocoon that seems inspired by ST:TNG's Holodeck. The images are only 2D, and you can't touch them. But it is 360-degree video and sound, with light sensors to detect your hand movements and floor sensors to detect foot movements. They hope to have a prototype by October 2009."

2 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. virtual reality FPS by agent4256 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this mean we're now one step closer to virtual reality fps games? So i can take on my friends in Halo, and actually have to run around to do anything instead of just sit on my couch and move my thumbs? rock on! sign me up. i _want_ one...

  2. So it's a fancy CAVE. by Max+Threshold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So they built a fancy CAVE in a shiny plastic sphere. I've wanted to build something like this since it became attainable without a research budget. Just network a few PCs and hook them up to five or six heavily diffused projectors pointed at the outside of a translucent cube. The ultimate innovation would be to let the user walk around on the surface of a giant trackball...