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Come and learn about the VR treadmill in Ready Player One

After watching Ready Player One, we may get interested about the VR treadmills in the movie. Generally it was thought that this concept-designed product would not be released until several years later, but a company had already done it.


Infinadeck is a full-scale VR treadmill. It's like the treadmill at the foot of Wade Watts in the movie "Number One Player," and you can move freely around the front or back in any direction. You can also easily achieve a full range of tracking navigation.

Although currently there are some full-scale VR treadmill solutions, Infinadeck has adopted an active design, and the crawler tracks will follow your foot movements. This is obviously different from other passive VR treadmills, which often require players to rub or slide on the tracker with the feet.


As we know, Infinadeck was born in 2014. In fact, the Infinadeck VR treadmill was first shown at the 2016 CES show. The initial form of this product does not look perfect, so the company has been iteratively upgraded to make the product now smaller and more stylish.



From the above video, we can know that the Infinadeck VR treadmill consists of two parts. One is the following all-around crawler. The other is the middle round metal protection device. Besides the HTC Vive head and handle, Vive Tracker tracker is also added behind the waist and at the two ankles.

Infinadeck VR treadmill

Other's VR treadmill

The biggest advantage of Infinadeck is its active design, this active design looks very cool, it will follow your foot moves to achieve the corresponding step movement in the virtual space, which is a 360-degree design.

In addition, other VR Runs need a center strap to tie to your waist: to fix the role and protect player from falling. The disadvantage of this design is that the wear experience is poor and the body is uncomfortable for a long time.


But even so, just like any other new-found product category, this treadmill also has some weaknesses. For example, due to the presence of metal fixtures, you may not be able to squat freely in VR, and you need to be careful about the surrounding rails when you are squatting because you may be touched at any time. Still, the current Infinadeck system cannot run and jump.

There is no doubt that such a VR treadmill is actually what we want, it may also have a huge impact on the future of VR experience. It is conceivable that such an equipment can be used for traditional offline offline experience shops, VR social networking, VR museums, and medical centers for rehabilitation work.


At present, Infinadeck has opened beta test version of hardware and software, the company's CEO said that Infinadeck is expected to be officially released next year.



Source: qingtingwang
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