{"id":17881,"date":"2015-09-27T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/ultimate-vr-simulator-throws-you-around-in-mid-air"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:36:04","slug":"ultimate-vr-simulator-throws-you-around-in-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/ultimate-vr-simulator-throws-you-around-in-mid-air","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate VR simulator throws you around in mid-air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJCsomGwdk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Virtual reality headsets can trick our eyes and ears into believing we\u2019re someplace else. Fooling the rest of the body is a little trickier though. Companies have tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/03\/05\/roto-virtual-reality-chair\/\">spinning chairs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/04\/11\/virtuix-omni-virtual-reality-treadmill-ships-in-july-for-early-a\/\">omnidirectional treadmills<\/a>, but nothing comes close to the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tuebingen.mpg.de\/aktuelles-presse\/pressemitteilungen\/detail\/seilroboter-mit-passagier.html\">Cable Robot Simulator<\/a>\u201d developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. The player wears a wireless VR headset inside a carbon fibre cage, which is then suspended in mid-air and thrown around the room using eight steel cables. The exposed pod is able to tilt, bank and move with an acceleration of up to 1.5g in response to the VR experience. Researchers have shown off some basic flight and racing simulations, but we\u2019re already imagining how it could be used in our favorite video games. A dogfight in <em>Star Wars: Battlefront<\/em> Tearing around corners in <em>F-Zero GX<\/em> The possibilities are endless. It\u2019s still very much a prototype, and hardly suitable for home use, but we\u2019re desperate to have a go ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/23\/vr-cable-robot-simulator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality headsets can trick our eyes and ears into believing we\u2019re someplace else. Fooling the rest of the body is a little trickier though. Companies have tried spinning chairs and omnidirectional treadmills, but nothing comes close to the \u201cCable Robot Simulator\u201d developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. The player wears a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64069,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions\/64069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}