CyberCarpet

Juniper Foo | Apr 29, 2005

As a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's always been a puzzle how Captain Picard and his crew of merry men could traverse the virtual worlds of the Holodeck without ever bumping into a wall. Now we know. The CyberCarpet is a project envisioned as a platform suspended over thousands of tiny spheres, which in turn float over a treadmill mounted on a turntable. Anyone walking on the 5m platform will keep walking back to the center without ever noticing. Hopefully, this won't be light years to completion.

Via Singularity News

Price: N.A.
Availability: Project in progress between Cognitive and Computational Psychophysics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, and the Institute for Applied Mechanics of the Technical University of Munich
Device: Walking platform for virtual worlds
Basic specs: N.A.

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