I Tried THE Ready Player One VR Treadmill!

I got to try the Infinadeck, a VR Omni-directional treadmill from the movie Ready Player One. A absolute next level invention that could be our future consumer holodeck. This opens your eyes on how VR gaming, fitness, social and trainings can be improved in so many ways. Plus it will work with VR headsets like Apple Vision Pro and Quest 3.

Visit the Infinadeck website:

Omni One Treadmill

Kat VR Treadmill

#vr #tech #future

[infinadeck]

Great to get to show you the Infinadeck and tell you the company story. Watching the celebrated "Nathie" play Half-Life Alyx on the Infinadeck was actually kind of inspiring for us in the office and re-captured the magic of physical movement inside VR for me. As you hinted at, even as a really small company still, we hopefully have quite a lot more to come this year.

[Machiavellipc]

WOW! The future looks bright! And I cannot wait!! Sitting, and potentially swimming/flying positions will make this thing absolutely AMAZING!! I cannot wait!

[JimmyNuisance]

Absolutely nuts. The price was about what I'd expect for something like this actually. Truly crazy that this is real.

[TheNitroG]

I think that I know how they could solve the latency problem. they need to have trackers on your feet and have the physical space of the treadmill defined in space, so as you pick up your foot and move it, they will be able to move the treadmill so that your foot never leaves that spot in space. Basically simulating how walking normally works.

You lift your foot and then use the other foot to push away the ground to propel yourself forward, this would just add an equal and opposite reaction force to prevent forward movement.

[NeseComedy]

Man I really wonder what happened to the StepVR Gates01 :( Looked like this thing really could be done for around $1000, but now I bet Disney has a patent on a similar concept that prevents others from bringing it to the masses...

[TheFiddleFaddle]

The price point makes sense. Probably the biggest limitation to making this commercially viable is not the device itself, but the regular maintenance it likely requires.

[SerffEdits]

Great video Nathie! I cannot believe that we are actually starting to see products like this in our world today. When I first watched Ready Player One, the omnidirectional treadmill was VERY interesting to me. Since then, I have been patiently waiting for the day when we can see something similar to it. The future is near and it is looking incredible! Thank you for the amazing content my brotha ❤❤

[AgentTekk]

4:36 hey, that's me!

Though, I figured they'd have made more progress by this point. That shot was taken years ago.

[JustAPakistaniGamer]

so i have this idea... tons of rubber balls with copper mesh on top of them inside teflon half circles that have copper electrodes, as the rubber glides over teflon these copper meshes rub against one another, the player wears a special sole that conducts electricity into the system bridging the gap using the mesh on the ball and going into the teflon cups, right below that is the base frame where all these are wired, each ball is like a pixel, when they spin and charge is applied by the user's foot through the conuctive sole, it basically registers data that you can pick up in a specially designed board.. This would give you better tracking resolution and would also make it entirely free to move slide and basically switch to any direction... you can have brakes inside the teflon cups that reactively stop based on movement data... if you take this entire system and house it over multiple pneumatic pistons.. you can even raise levels of the floor and have it react like actual stairs and give you the impression of walking up stairs or over rough terrain and such...

dumb idea i know... but if you like itt and think it might be viable, hit like, let people know about it.. let's see it gett made :D,

[TheOriginalJi]

Ready player one is my favourite movie, simply for the fact that the oasis and the omnidirectional treadmill are very achievable feats as technology and A.I advances. My estimate is that we are about 5 years out from it being a reality. I wonder who will be the first person or group of people to create a real life version of ready player ones Oasis... It is literally going to change society!

[dilir]

Wow that's so cool. Hopefully they can whip out more commercial affordable version of them to public

[Rustybongs]

When I first saw the movie, I liked it, enough to watch it a few times and remember for a while, even tell some friends about, but I enjoyed the film as a gamer. Not much thought into it then that, I'm not a movie person and just wasn't into VR and crypto and such...
BUT I never even paid attention to who made it, until I saw this and you said that. It's great to see him making movies that have the messages in it that is Steven. I knew I took the time to watch it and enjoyed it for a reason, as in if i watch a movie there normally has to be a good one. Cause I still enjoy my OG artists and film makers at heart.

[whoisbunny]

i met you years and years ago in a rec room lobby by accident, I'm glad to see youre still posting these quality videos<33

[hakjie]

8:12 suddenly taking a bigger step and the foot was half outside the moving parts, that was scary, so the system wasn't fine tuned for sudden movements?

[knifeyonline]

great to see an update about this product, this is so close to something usable I can't wait to see the next version.

[le_truc]

I really wish in the futur they can make it tilt, so when you go up a hill... YOU ACTUALLY GO UP A HILL... that would be mind blowing

[adamsdimension]

Ive been tracking this product since like 2016 or something dreaming of having it one day. Can't wait till it will become affordable and more consumer ready.

[tigerzero]

It's great for simulating walking on the flat. What is the experience when walking up a hill? You have to push your hands against that safety bar as the feet push against the moving floor?

I think that's the next step in the evolution of this treadmill. Servos/hydraulics to tilt the treadmill to an angle that matches the ground. You could say a stair climber effect. The tilting of the treadmill is not a problem. The task is making the system aware of the ground in VR and the person's orientation to provide a matching surface footing.

[GRGHQ]

Imagine using this with the game Unrecord.
Great video!
-Sentinel

[JSpitz]

I love, that you wore the Marty McFly shoes for this video.