>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^rich_magnet:
Engineering information can be found here:
http://cyberwalk.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/
Basically, it's a conveyor belt of conveyor belts.

that's a cool and interesting solution.
what was so special about crossing legs or not crossing legs?


My guess, Breaks the illusion, and can potentially cause injury. I don't think that thing doesn't read how fast you're moving (i.e. you walk at a consistant 5 mph in whichever direction you face) and should you fall the conveyor belt would keep moving til you're off.. and then continue until someone stops it.

>> ^rich_magnet:

Engineering information can be found here:
http://cyberwalk.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/
Basically, it's a conveyor belt of conveyor belts.

that's a cool and interesting solution.

what was so special about crossing legs or not crossing legs?

Interesting solution, although movie studios have been dealing with this problem for an incredibly long time with chroma keying. It seems to be a combination of edge detection with keying... although he did not demonstrate it with a more complicated background. At least with professional video software its gotten to the point to where you just take a dropper and say "This is the background key color" and it magically removes the green/blue and with refinement you get rid of the ambient tint.

Granted I still see movies today where I notice poor keying where an actors hair still has tints of the key color in or behind it... so its still a difficult problem regardless.