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VR Motion Simulator trying to get into HAXLR8R 2015

feelthree
Honored Guest
Thought I would share my work in progress motion simulator for the rift if some of you guys missed it on reddit.

It's modular, affordable , safe and stylish and there's nothing else like it out there.

I'm compromising with a belt driven approach, with about 180 degrees of pitch/roll and 90 degrees of yaw, but if I can get my free wheeling mecanum design to work it has the potential to be 360 degrees in all three axis. A built in gyro extrapolates the rotational data between sphere and rift. A heave (up/down) add on will be worked on once the base unit is in production.

Check it out http://www.feelthree.com and please give me your feedback and/or support, hoping to start the kickstarter soon.



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feelthree
Honored Guest
This might be a little premature, and without naming names, I'm reasonable sure we're about to recruit a Professor from a European university to the project, he also has a PhD in Robotics! Now this in itself is not such amazing news since it's quite easy to 'join' a project but we'll also be submitting an application soon to the HAXLR8R hardware accelerator in Shenzhen. Which means 4 months of practical prototyping, developing, finding a factory and designing for manufacture... and $25-100k 🙂

So if you're still waiting for an affordable motion simulator then please join us on twitter and facebook, join the mailing list (to enter the raffle too) and retweet the raffle link so more people spread the word. Every person we can show who is interested in project will make us more likely to be selected and more likely the simulator will be release before CV1.

Wish us luck!

feelthree
Honored Guest
Well we got the first interview for HAXLR8R but we need them to know people want this

http://www.feelthree.com/2014/11/update-3-we-passed-the-first-haxlr8r-selection-test/

So if you want to see us get into the second stage show your support via twitter before the end of the month...

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%23RT%20if%20you%20want%20to%20see%20the%20amazing%20%23FeelTh...

That also gets you 50 entries into a raffle to win 2 of the base units with shipping!

feelthree
Honored Guest
We've also redesigned the base so it not only looks nicer but we reduced the part count too 🙂

Anonymous
Not applicable
This is so slick.

zalo
Explorer
How many motors does the latest design have? An earlier screen shot depicts 12, which I think might be overkill...

By the way, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat to hear more news!

feelthree
Honored Guest
"zalo" wrote:
How many motors does the latest design have? An earlier screen shot depicts 12, which I think might be overkill...

By the way, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat to hear more news!


Thanks

That was more to demonstrate that if you want more torque/speed you can add more (cheap) motors since there is lot of space in the base.

Follow us on twitter or sign up to the raffle to find out the super secret news we're about to share 🙂

http://www.feelthree.com/Win_a_F3/

traveltr0users
Explorer
No we're not dead, just not posting on here as much 🙂

And we have a working prototype, which is nice 🙂

http://www.twitter.com/feelthree gets all the news, follow us there....

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ProfessorK
Honored Guest
You Kickstart and I am there. I have been waiting for many, many years for someone to come up with a viable consumer motion platform!

Eight360
Honored Guest
Everyone should check out Eight360! They have developed a better motion sim that has unlimited roll, pitch + yaw!
eight360.com
facebook.com/eight360VR/
twitter.com/Eight360VR