The Infinadeck Omnidirectional Treadmill – Smarter Every Day 192 (VR Series)

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1. A Jordan Peterson plug? Ffs. Next I'm gonna see an anti-vaxer in a Ted Talk.

2. Could a laser sensor at leg / foot level anticipate direction change and tell the infinadeck (not sure that’s how to spell it) at the moment it seems to react to pressure and movement with a slight delay.

3. Why not give the control back to the user and just use free treads on bearings rather than motors controlled by input received by a camera?

4. Would freaking love to work on this, I always thought a big old school mouse ball fliped upside down on wich you walk would do the trick, with an harness with sensors for body moves and the mouse ball to adapt quickly.

5. No eyebrow lookin ahh

6. I think you could solve the problem with a touch sensitive treadmill that could read what percentage of the body weight is placed on which foot. Taking a step uses your full body weight and using this parameter would allow you to make the treadmill x/y-axis correction instantly as you could read what the step length is. The difference between body position and foot position when foot has 100% (or so) weight load is the distance the axis need to cover. Done correctly this could mask itself as heptic feedback since the body is expecting a type of muscle activation when "walking" and having to rely on the ground to work as you expect based on the real world.

7. I feel like instead of basing it off of your back and the over all position of your body, it should be based off of the position of your stepping foot.
   If the user picks up their foot, track the direction that the foot is heading and spin the treadmill in the exact opposite direction while the foot is in the air…
   I feel like that is how humans walk, they lean and move in a certain direction and subsequently put their foot in that direction. Using that logic, you can reverse it and say that the
   direction a person's stepping foot is going is the way they will go. When the device is on your back, your foot is already on the ground by the time your body moves so there is a bit
   of a delay.
   I could be totally wrong, but I feel like that makes the most sense in my head

8. Sphere earthers must be shaking in their boots right now ?

9. It’s too loud

10. If the deck had a slight parabola perhaps it would help your brain deal with the changes in acceleration. Since there's not a way to detect the user's intent, make the user more aware of where the Infinadeck intends to keep them.

11. Love the Voltron tee-shirt

12. As soon as you sync'd I wanted it.

13. Yes!! My dreams of getting my own holodeck are finally becoming reality….. too bad I'll be in my 90's

14. Make into a circle not a square

15. Look at the cat on the background 5:26

16. Use a shoe sensor

17. Wouldn't a deck full of small trackballs do the same thing without the inertia?

18. All i hear is "blah blah blah blah"

    Is there something wrong with me?

19. Imagine chillin in your Minecraft base walkin around on your infinideck omnidirectional treadmill and a creeper shows up

20. It's very noisy when you walk. Good try but need more work. The current delay when you stop is borderline dangerous. He was only walking slowly. If he was running, the delay would push him backwards even further. He'd run into the ring.

    I know it's a work in progress, but there's a long way to go.

21. Why they dont use brain signals to detect whether a person wants to walk or not

22. I would just use a ball. No?

23. This thing would be a maintenance nightmare. Cool, but very complicated. Too complicated for my game room for sure.
    Could always train to be an Infinideck repairman, i guess.

24. As an electrical engineering student, I had only one word in my head throughout the video : PID controller 🙂

25. Should be set not to move unless feet move so it doesn’t correct for you leaning around

26. We're not there yet boys, give em 10 years tho

27. Asserting dominance in… 3:29

28. Ready player one

29. I love how we are so entertained by the recreation of life.

    I mean, you can just open your eyes and there are miracles everywhere around you.

    But nooooo…. We want to strap ourselves to a massive treadmill, put goggles over our eyes, and pretend to kill people.

30. My god treadmills used to be torture devices back then, what has our world turned into now

31. I've got a better solution. A giant track ball you walk on while suspended in a harness. It would be far cheaper and more responsive and feel more natural. Feel free to plagiarize my idea as I have no way of actually making the thing, but if you make millions doing it, just send one mil my way as a thank you 🙂

32. Neat idea but doomed to fail. I bet the experience is like being in one of those crazy houses in a travelling carnival – the things where the floor moves in a wobbly, unpredictable way compared to your perception.

33. Why couldn't they take the user's weight into account to adjust the motor speed and duration? So that the momentum from the initial correction that the treadmill makes will carry you closer to the center as opposed to past it.

34. If the whole thing was bigger, itd be better.

    If you had more space to walk, it would be able to better cater towards what your doing smoothly

35. The background on 5:39

36. Imagine this thing was made for jail. People would be put there, but be unable to escape because of the "infinite floor" effect

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