From: Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro Subject: Re: TECH: Walking in VR? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 17:38:02 +0200 Message-ID: <31B306DA.695678E2@nada.kth.se> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology Peter Vamplew wrote: > > Does anyone know of any devices which allow the user to walk around a > virtual world? I'm familiar with the work at UNC using a treadmill > equipped with handlebars, but I'm wondering if anyone has developed a > system which allows the user to walk in any direction. Not a device, but Mel Slater and others at QMW let users walk on the spot and detect the walking motion through the bouncing induced in the head tracker - a very cheap and efficient solution. See http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/research/ace/subsection3_2_1.html Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro