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While the walking demos show slow, methodical movement, the one demo with the chair ( https://youtu.be/68YMEmaF0rs?t=269 ) is definitely much faster. Maybe it can't handle automatically moving the human if they walk too fast and suddenly change direction (improvable with better software), maybe they don't want to overpromise what it can do.

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Yeah the 'force' movement was really cool. Maybe this is the other way you could do the Jamiroquai video for Virtual Insanuty?

I've never really used VR stuff but I wonder what does it feel like in your head when your legs move and your view moves but your body doesn't?

And then the edge case is extreme but topologically, can something like this work for running where you can lose contact with the ground and your body is sort of compensating for momentum?

I guess treadmills work without people flying off them, so is it just a matter of getting the impulse right?

> what does it feel like in your head when your legs move and your view moves but your body doesn't?

That could be fixed with some active tilting of the whole platform to create dynamic lateral forces.

Those little wheels will need to be strongly controlled & grippy to avoid real and perceived slippage.

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