Prompt's TechBlog
Virtual Balls
22 September 2005
Posted by LC
VirtuSphere is a kind of giant hamster-ball designed to allow people to walk around virtual worlds. Users wearing VR goggles can walk around inside the ball and as they do so the ball turns on its rollers, which work in much the same way as the roller sensors for a common mouse-ball, enabling the computer to move the user through the virtual environment based on the speed and direction of their footsteps.
There are lots of practical applications for this, obviously hazardous environment training being a prime candidate, but we think the best use of this technology would be for online gamers to get a bit of excercise while they're playing 3D shooters like Battlefield 2 for hour after hour.
There are lots of practical applications for this, obviously hazardous environment training being a prime candidate, but we think the best use of this technology would be for online gamers to get a bit of excercise while they're playing 3D shooters like Battlefield 2 for hour after hour.
# posted by LC at 3:42 PM 
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