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Augmented & Virtual Reality Headsets

Discussion in 'Electronic and hardware generally' started by telfel, May 2, 2014.

  1. Tino

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    I remember watching Star Trek Voyager as a kid and in one of the episodes Tom Paris talked how he likes to go into holodeck and drive 20th century cars races with speeds of around 300Kph.

    I though this sounded very cool and with VR HMD (with better resolution) and 6dof motion platform we are finally getting close to the holodeck experience (except this is will be real)!
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    I certainly hope you are right and my rift order is finally moving soon...I will believe it when I see it. Best I get a wriggle on and get my sim built and follow up on my Warthog joystick, which I returned weeks ago under warranty.

    I already have Elite Dangerous but unfortunately it is a developmental moving target at the moment, so a profile may have to wait a while. I consider Elite Dangerous is doing a pretty good job so far with with both Rift and joystick integration, better than Star Citizen at least.
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    An actual Holodeck like experience is not that far off with developments like the Sixense STEM System and Omni, combined with the Rift. I backed the Omni more than a year ago and it is still delayed. There are also tracking issues to resolve but the end result should be an awesome alpha holodeck in your own home:
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    Hi noorbeast,
    Putting camera on the ceiling is a great idea, but the headset would have to be completely covered with leds (back and top), similar to Morpheus:


    Also not sure how many consumers would be happy mounting the camera on the ceiling.

    Omni threadmil sounds great, but I don't find running very interesting so I'll be happy to build racing/ flying 6dof motion simulator :)
    I'm sure we can make great flying/ racing sims now, but for anything involving full body motion (running jumping, etc) I think you would need;
    a big swimming pool,
    space suit with servo motors for every joint (for haptics)
    4-8k screen in the helmet.
    It wouldn't be cheap, but that would be closer to the holodeck experience.
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    Here is my way :) Two Wiimotes with nunchucks (now with zapper weaponframe) and own custom made script for Glovepie. Not a holodeck, but affordable, takes no additional space and is very immersive! No need for treadmill in my opinion.

    Here playing Doom 3 and being really scared at times :D

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    I need the exercise and can't think of a more fun way to get it :grin
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