Experiencing VR in an industrial hall can be terrific – plenty of open space. In a tiny apartment though, you’ll bump into the dog, drop a vase and hit a wall. These boundaries have to be broken though, if we plan on having VR experiences in the weekends, with consumer gears. Researchers in Japan think they found a way to do just that #realitymagic
A team from the Tokyo and Unity Technologies Japan has come up with something called the “Visuo-Haptic” experience, a technique that tricks the brain into thinking you’re walking miles instead of just circling the same spot in your livingroom. This “redirected walking” effectively creates the illusion of an “infinite corridor” in a space that can measure just 16 feet by 22 feet.
By this logic, the VR user is practically making use of a limitless, boundless play space – no walls whatsoever. For now, users still have to touch a physical wall to get a sense of direction and feel the effect right but the team is hoping to make them unnecessary in the future.
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