“Stringwalker” attempts to solve the problem of walking with a head-mounted VR display through a virtual space. The project uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable to give the walker tangible feedback of their virtual environments while guiding them through the spaces. Just don’t try to attach your shoelaces to the guide wires.
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White socks and sandals… nice combo!!
Now if you add in some motion tracking for jumping and crouching and quite the thing down.. That would be bad ass..
I’ve been told the stringwalker is not such a good locomotion device. The CirculaFloor from the same Tsukuba university seems more promising to me!
The Virtusphere, which I’ve tested, is much more usable, and the Omni-directionnal treadmill might be another interesting solution.
Checkout : http://cb.nowan.net/blog/state-of-vr/state-of-vr-devices/#locomotion
and for a good overview of the state of virtual reality
: http://cb.nowan.net/blog/state-of-vr/
cheers
cb