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Controlled Quantum Levitation Used To Build Wipeout Track
First time accepted submitter gentryx writes "Researchers at the Japan Institute of Science and Technology have build a miniature Wipeout track (YouTube video) using high temperature superconductors and quantum levitation. Right now this is fundamental research, but in the future large scale transportation systems could be built with technology akin to this. I have a different vision: let Nintendo sell this as an accessory for the Wii U. I'd buy several of these tracks, let the gliders race through the whole house and track them on our TV!"
Update: 01/05 22:08 GMT by S : As many readers have pointed out, this is CGI.
Um... it's a confirmed fake?
...the video is a fake. I'm amazed that OP didn't catch this, and I'm amazed it fell through the cracks and ended up on the front page. Seriously, just look at the CGI effects.
No pun intended. But it really is freaking awesome. The child in me who built hot wheels race tracks that ran the whole house just ran in circles of joy.
Nintendo isn't known for making high-cost accessories.
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It's a trailer for a movie. Jesus people do your homework.
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Yep, you lose slashdot. This is a troll. If it was controlled levitation the rotation of the vehicles would be fixed to their original position, and would not rotate to match the track.
Wipeout, on nVidia Riva 128
So many memories that I don't care if the film is fake or not.
Nostalgia.
The computer generated imagery and FX are so obvious. Also, there's no such thing as the Japanese Institute of Science and Technology (JIST). However, there is a Japanese ADVANCED Institute of Science and Technology - JAIST. How did this slip through and reach the front page? :)
The mist trails are all wrong. The car changes from when it is in the hand to when it is on the track. The lighting is wrong. The movement is wrong. I am not even sure the track is real.
This seems pretty clearly to be fake. Look at, for example, at 1:13-1:16 and, in particular, the "exhaust" from the yellow car thing as it is rendered on top of the track instead of being obscured by it.
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I, for one, welcome our new Soviet quantum profit levitation 2. ????? YOU!
The only thing more embarrassing for /. for posting this obvious fake...well, it'll be when it gets reposted in 2 days...
Huh?
So... how about that new design that just popped up? (Go on, hit F5.)
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Even though this video is fake, the videos of guys with circular tracks that look like they're shot at trade shows are real. I actually kind of suspect that they tried to do this for real but it didn't work, so they created a fake video to spoof investors or other people whom were promised results.
A viral video of a new game in the wipeout series made it to slashdot frontpage? I must be new here.
...didn't know this was a fake. Kind of spoils the fun of having a ./ story posted for the first time. :-/
ps: I'm not affiliated with the creators of the video.
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Without Flukes "Atom Bomb" playing its not Wipeout.
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And this is why we can't allow first-time accepted submitters.
That's pretty lame, the original post provides a link for "quantum levitation." that goes to a Wikipedia page that wants the user to choose between three different things. No reasonable poster would provide that link, if the poster wanted to link to Wikipedia he should have made the proper choice on the "Disambiguation page" and posted the link to the actual article. If I need to follow the link then one should assume that I don't have enough information to make the choice for myself.
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I'm thinking of the company who made me pay for the following game console items for the first time: 1) Analog joysticks 2) Rumble packs, with batteries 3) Stereoscopic display (Virtual Boy) 4) Cables to connect handheld consoles to tv-based consoles for use as controllers 5) Adapters to play legacy game cartridges on new hardware 6) Extra analog sticks for motion controllers 7) Controllers for playing emulated games 8) Shoulder-mounted light-gun bazookas 9) Dance pad style floor controllers. What company was that again?
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quantum is the new buzz word to scam investors
Nintendo is the wrong choice for a Wipeout track. You're looking for an FZero track. If you want a Wipeout track you have to use Sony, sorry.
It's quite possible to do this. See this video of quantum-locked magnetic levitation. And this one, with an actual levitating skateboard.
It looks like the people behind this video cheaped out and didn't actually build the thing, which is lame.
This looks 'shopped.
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Please. It's "have builded".
Not to take away from the discussion of the fakeness that is... but does anyone know what musical tracks were used in this videos?
I tend to be a drum & bass junkie long before a nerd (though, in some parts, it seems that bassheads are always the nerds).
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It was totally obvious to me that the sleds just weren't fast enough to stay on the track around the vertical banked turn -- didn't anyone else think that? We're expected to believe that centrifugal force keeps them on the track as they go through that turn, right? They're clearly going too slowly for that...
Remember... this is Slashdot. We don't read the article, even when it's on Youtube! ;)
From the description of the video, the soundtrack is:
Noisia - Seven Stitches
Mist - Smart Systems
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On the small amount of info given this would seem to be an Augmented Reality Wipeout game for the PSVita. Um, thanks for the viral ad?
No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
It's just a "mysterious" clip tailored to create hype around some upcoming Wipeout release, maybe for PS Vita?
Even if the video was 'real' (It wasn't imo), it could simply have been maglev, you know, magnetic replusion to keep them in position on a closed track.
That actually works, fyi. We even have trains that use maglev, fastest one is in asia somewhere I believe. Japan or China.
Anywho...
Snark much?
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Loose the bullshit helpful features, OK?
Two kinds of people, Those who immediately see this as fake and those who post it to boingboing and slashdot as interesting.
... but it did tip me into making my first PS3 store purchase, Wipeout 2097 from the PSX classics section.
Market-leading bastards. Now if you'll excuse me I have some reflexes to get back...
watch this for explanation and even more astonishing details of quantum levitation.
http://kottke.org/11/10/quantum-levitation
And please stop being half-wise-asses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmtbLu5nxw&feature=related This is more like it.
Has just happened here!!! i feel dirty, if someone calls im in the shower.
And please stop calling this shit "quantum levitation" is ridiculous.
There was quantum levitation showed at the Colbert report once. Jump to the 4:38 mark
I'm familiar with linguistics and I usually see no spelling mistakes of this particular kind from Japanese speakers -- "reaserche." Because of the type of language differences between Japanese and English, there is usually a very particular type of spelling deviation. Also because of the rampant usage of English in Japan (not necessarily in fluent conversation but loan words and words added in songs and media because of their more suitable length, sound, etc. it's normal to see fairly good English spelling from the Japanese. This deviated from any error I've seen before by FAR...enough to set off a flag in my mind...and that's even before the ridiculous CG video even actually started...
here is a helpful child-like jingle for the brain impaired still infesting this site:
if you can see it with your own eye, the word 'quantum' DOES NOT APPLY.
its obviously CG , an article going into detail - http://z6mag.com/featured/controlled-quantum-levitation-fools-50k-into-thinking-viral-video-was-real-164282.html
In my opinion, the most convincing reasons why this is a fake is that the Japanese Institute of Science and Technology doesn't even exist (although the Japanese ADVANCED Institute of Science and Technology does,) the youtube channel was just created, it has no other videos, and the only linkage is a gmail address. I also find it odd that Slashdot didn't vet this more thoroughly.
Okay... (1) the Youtube user (who is supposedly a college or college student group) only posted 1 video, (2) whoever was smart enough to supposedly make a quantum machine...you think they'd spell the word "research" correctly...AND (3) the user who posted this story on Slashdot is a first-time poster.
Hey, first-time poster...do some "RESEARCH" before wasting people's time...it's rude to post things that aren't credible. Hypothetically, if this is some sad attempt at self-promotion: sod off. And if that's the case, here's an idea: try spending more time on your CG skills and less time dishonestly self-promoting and then you won't have to worry about tricking people into seeing your video because then you'll have skills that will speak for themselves.
I mean, fake obviously but still more interesting than the 45th "I'm too cool for 3d, which isn't even really 3d" pile-on thread.
Oh, and here's a video of someone who actually implemented a Meissner effect racetrack, complete with elevation changes: here
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (MagLev) on a Magnetic Track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmtbLu5nxw
You could literally tell from the pixels?
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
I can see the double slit experiment with my own eyes. Does the word quantum apply to wave-particle duality? Also, isn't the alteration of rhodopsin from reaction with a photon a quantum effect, making the word 'quantum' apply to everything you can see with your own eye?
Doesn't seem like the sort of thing you can really successfully nit-pick about in a place filled with pedants like this.
Liquid Hydrogen pipelines with magnesium diboride superconductor cables contained inside would make an excellent electric transmission grid, & hydrogen fuel economy distribution system.
The perk would be that you could ride Mag Levs over the pipes. U Jelly?
So... is this one fake as well?
Looks just as impressive to me, and I don't think it is CGI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
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To all those who say this video is fake, it's not. Mattel has had it for years, but parents groups banned it from sale because they don't want kids hurt.
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And which one of these is it you're considering to be "high cost"?
I'm not contending whether or not the video is faked, but the argument that there is a Sony copyright mark is totally invalid. That copyright mark is in relation to the wipeout name, concept and logo, which they are required to display under the fair use provisions along with the fair use statement as JIST (fake or not) would not have the rights to. It clearly states that the copyright for the video does not belong to Sony.
two fakes on 1 day is not a good sign for slashdot!
if you want to post a video of this, post colbert's actual quantum levitation racetrack thing.
This shows the smoke on the wrong side of the track...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K610EpvszLk
It's clearly fake, in the end of the video there is even promotional ad for the new wipeout game named "quantum". Original (TM or Copyrighted) font us also used.
Hey Guys, my bet from Silicon Valley is that it is real. But its not levitation!
1. See the rubber gloves and the metal injector at the beginning of the clip? See the vapor when the car goes. That is liquid Nitrogen.
2. "Levitation" is just the N2 outgassing and providing a "gas" downward force that the car is sitting on.
You do this experiment in basic physics class with little cars riding on a cushion of air and its so smooth - almost with no fricition. Same principle - with N2.
3. The track has magnets on the sides easy to see. This is common tech. Could be another version but its not a big deal. It pulls and pushes in sequence to move the car.
4. On the side where the car runs exactly 180 degrees. You can see the back of the track. Thats the super conductor material - probably a form of magnet that is pulling the car to the side --- but, its still floating on the gas that is pressing out. The side track magnets are still propelling it forward.
Its a nice demo! In real life you would need way too much liquid N2 to move a car or train around - but maybe I'm wrong if the track were precisely made to fit the glides above it and the space was filled with gas.
Need the equipment and programming to sequence the forward/backward movement.
Cheers!
steve