Comments on: Robotic Steps Let You Walk Forward Endlessly Without Getting Anywhere

By: brett maxwell

brett maxwell — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:39:06 +0000

i want to see it keep up with a full sprint!

By: Kalel

Kalel — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:17:14 +0000

Foreigner is right, of course… it’s just one step at a time.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:12:46 +0000

Great, my life was already going nowhere, now so am I.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:02:43 +0000

Every start in new technology is cumbersome, big and slow.

But if this idea really takes off I see a future where these blocks get so fast that you’ll be able to run and jump on them without falling off. And then the first true outlines of the holo-deck become visible.

Coming years we’ll see these blocks getting faster and faster. And they’ll also get smaller and smaller upto a point where in the end after some decades of development you’ll see a kind of nano-blocks that make kind of a semi-”fluid” surface that can accomodate multiple users on the same surface.

Combine this technology with virtual-touch-suits, VR-headsets and Wii-tech and you get a whole new sensation with those games and training-equipments that are out there…

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:34:35 +0000

Is this similar to this:

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/28/enhancing-the-virtual-reality-expe rience/

By: TwoFry

TwoFry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:31:21 +0000

This seems to take all the fun out of the lava floor game.

By: rizwan

rizwan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:33:55 +0000

there’s something a bit more seamless than that called a treadmill

By: rizwan

rizwan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:33:45 +0000

there’s something a bit more seamless than that called a treadmile