From: ANDREW J MITCHELL Subject: TECH: Moving Surface simulating free motion over ground Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 14:51:51 GMT Message-ID: <1239@aatlond.demon.co.uk> Having searched a lot of VR literature I have not come across any research into moving platforms aimed at keeping people in the same place while they feel like they physically walk around a virtual landscape. This could be used for anything from simulating walkthroughs to playing Virtual Doom. If research was carried out in this area, was there a fundamental problem preventing the idea being viable, such as the impossiblity of accelerating the surface sufficiently fast without the user falling over? I would be grateful if someone could point me in the direction of any relevant literature or any solutions to this problem which they have come across. -- Andy Mitchell