{"id":21239,"date":"2016-01-27T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/vr-cycling-setup-created-for-just-40"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:16","slug":"vr-cycling-setup-created-for-just-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/vr-cycling-setup-created-for-just-40","title":{"rendered":"VR cycling setup created for just $40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vr-cycling-setup-created-for-just-40.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cheaper way for VR wear for consumers; are consumers potentially being ripped off?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Oculus Rift finally went on sale, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/oculus-rift-vr-priced-at-600-ships-in-march-1643934\/\">that $600 price tag<\/a> is a bit too steep for some to justify. Fortunately, VR doesn\u2019t have to be expensive. Take this virtual reality cycling rig that someone created for $40.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pauldyan.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/24\/my-vr-bike\/\">the work of Paul Yan<\/a>, who\u2019s the animation director at Toys for Bob \u2014 the studio that developed <em>Skylanders<\/em> and kicked off the toys-to-life revolution. He previously figured out how to build an \u201cArduino thing\u201d that could talk to a smartphone via Bluetooth LE and he wanted to put his contraption to good use.<\/p>\n<p>He whipped up a cityscape in Unity, set his mountain bike up on an indoor trainer, and marked the rear tire with a small piece of paper. The Arduino tracks pedaling speed by keeping tabs on how long it takes the paper to make a revolution, and it relays that information back to the phone, which is then clipped into a VR headset. The phone tells the virtual bike to keep pace: pedal faster, and the street scene moves by more quickly. If you\u2019d rather cruise around the neighborhood, pedal more slowly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/vr-cycling-setup-created-for-just-40-1645597\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheaper way for VR wear for consumers; are consumers potentially being ripped off? The Oculus Rift finally went on sale, but that $600 price tag is a bit too steep for some to justify. Fortunately, VR doesn\u2019t have to be expensive. Take this virtual reality cycling rig that someone created for $40. It\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68710,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21239\/revisions\/68710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}