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This technology looks legitimately impressive.
Here’s a video of it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Sh6mu4zbs&t=1
- rwhitisissle ( @rwhitisissle@beehaw.org ) 26•10 months ago
This thing is so technically complex and has so many moving parts that I can only imagine it breaking literally constantly and costing a fortune to repair whenever it does.
- blackluster117 ( @blackluster117@possumpat.io ) 11•10 months ago
So, a Disneyland ride?
- rwhitisissle ( @rwhitisissle@beehaw.org ) 6•10 months ago
I can only assume the reason you’d work for Disney as either an engineer or technician is if you have a kink involving being in a constant and inescapable state of overworked frustration.
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
Depending on how exactly is it made, it could have fewer moving parts than it looks like. The tilt seems to be controlled on a whole module at a time level, and I’m guessing all the tops of a module might be rotating in the same direction. That would still leave a lot of linkages and bushings or bearings, but make it easily serviceable by just replacing them. The modular design seems to indicate you could pick a whole hexagon tile, replace it with a working one, and service the damaged one in the background.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 18•10 months ago
just make housing and food less expensive its all we ask
- I_am_10_squirrels ( @I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ) 5•10 months ago
But this way, you can have virtual housing and food!
- thebuoyancyofcitrus ( @thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org ) 12•10 months ago
This problem had already been solved https://i.makeagif.com/media/3-03-2015/at5UtW.gif
- Jaytreeman ( @Jaytreeman@kbin.social ) 8•10 months ago
And Jesus wept!
- perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English3•10 months ago
So, that was a passive tech, keeping you in a place, and this actively works to steer you to where you need to be. This seems better in the long run for that purpose even though it’s much more complicated.
- thebuoyancyofcitrus ( @thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org ) 4•10 months ago
Oh, I agree. I’m duly impressed. It’s just that I immediately thought back to that scene from community. I’m not good about remembering to call out my sarcasm.
- KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•10 months ago
Unfortunately inertia presents a problem it’s the same with omnidirectional treadmills. https://youtu.be/fvu5FxKuqdQ
- ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English2•10 months ago
I was fully expecting to see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE
- leaf ( @leaf@feddit.nl ) 6•10 months ago
I’ve seen another video where the guy stops moving on it and you can immediately see the problem this and any other tech like this has: momentum. It just can’t stop/start fast enough.
It’s only a first version. I’m sure with time, it’ll get even better.
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months ago
I’m looking forward to this. Combine it with eye-tracking 3D and you’ve got everything except the tactile response for a holodeck. Like this: https://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw
- LanternEverywhere ( @LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ) 4•10 months ago
Woah cool!
- CanadianCorhen ( @CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months ago
really a cool tech, cant imagine how it would work. Could definitely make walking in VR a lot less cumbersome.
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•10 months ago
It will make VR even more fun so I am looking forward to it
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English3•10 months ago
Whoa what the fuck? How does it even work? It looked like you can control the direction the floor itself is moving the things on it (the way they are “force pushing” the box or when the old guy is in the chair) but it also looked like it wasn’t even moving, or uses power.
This shit looks like magic.
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 5•10 months ago
Seems to be a lot of cylindrical pillars with pressure sensors and motors, that can be tilted by a slight degree in both X-Y axes, or they have a fixed tilt and just the tilt direction is rotated in Z (seems like the pillars of a whole module get adjusted all at once), making only some borders be in contact with an object. A program can track the position of an object, then calculate how to tilt and rotate the pillars so the borders in contact with the object will push it in the desired direction.
It reminds me somewhat of an omniwheel control system, but applied to the floor instead of the wheels.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•10 months ago
Is it just me or does it seem 3d printed? How cool would it be to just 3d print a playspace like this
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 2•10 months ago
The spinning tops might be 3D printed, but there are some motors and pressure sensors involved, plus some electronics, and you probably want a steel plate underneath holding it all together. Tolerances would also be quite tight.
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 2•10 months ago
That’s so cool how is he so causal about all of that. It looks like one day it will be able to handle running jumping and all kinds of movement. Vr is going to be better than real life.
- Toribor ( @Toribor@corndog.social ) English1•10 months ago
Real life sucks so that’s a low bar for VR to surpass.