I know I'm not the only one who thinks this would be great for a dog in a small backyard. This is also Mike Vick's dream machine for his dogs.

For the hopeless drunk who needs exercise.

or hands-on experience as mmoRPG character

It seems to have very limited motion along the "long" axis (the direction the "slats" run). I suspect you couldn't really walk those directions long.

I always imagined they'd build something like this. Good job! Virtual reality is one step closer! (no pun intented

holodeck baby!!!

"Any direction"??? Uh, sorry, he didn't go up OR down!

I see this as a peripheral for a FPS or as Legacy pointed out a mmoRPG game. Put a gun in your hands and some of the newer monitor specs on and you are IN the game.

Pretty nice-- properly equipped, it could be quite useful in therapy settings.

YES!!!! Next stop, VR!

/swoon

I think rustybrooks is right, i didn' even notice at first. seems to have some problems..

Oh Nooos! I'm Trapped!

I found another video of this thing:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Another-video-of-the-omni-directional-treadmill

I don't really think there's any limit to movement, it just happened to be the way he was walking in this particular clip.

Pretty cool tech indeed. Arvana's second link is worth a look!

Oh, puh-leeese, UncleAndy.... WHY would somebody fake this? Isn't it just possible that somebody has come up with a really cool invention? There's more info about it here: http://www.vsd.bz/   And yes, it does allow infinite motion in any direction.

In reply to arvana's comment:
“Isn't it just possible that somebody has come up with a really cool invention? There's more info about it here: http://www.vsd.bz/ And yes, it does allow infinite motion in any direction.”

Yes, it IS possible that somebody has come up with a really cool invention - the omni-directional treadmill HAS been around for at least 10 years - do a Google search of it:

IEEE article from 1999:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/38/17375/00799737.pdf?tp=&arnumber=799737&isnumber=17375

I see through your link that there are other pictures of this to confirm it's authenticity


How do you delete comments??

hehe nice save, UA7. Actually your original "FAKE" comment was a really good explanation of how somebody COULD fake this if they really felt the need to. 

Now we can all make Jamiroquai music videos!

dude, sweet safety harness.

I just watched a show the other day, no clue what it was, but one of the hosts was showing a "new" interactive game that uses a real life person to interact with the characters on screen. I can easily see these two technologies being easily merged and having a truly, 360 (minus up OR down ) where you can walk, punch, kick and everything else in the game environment. And to think, Florida schools bought DDR to get their kids to exercise . . . .