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Absolutely brilliant. It's this sort of stuff that might bring back the old arcade as this system is too expensive for home owners.
by arkitaip 15y ago
Absolutely brilliant. It's this sort of stuff that might bring back the old arcade as this system is too expensive for home owners.
- spydum 15y agoAre you kidding, at $650k, that's too expensive for arcade owners (do those still exist besides collectors?).
- bradleyland 15y agoAt an investment of $650k just for the simulator, and assuming you'd like to make that back in a year -- which is kind of a long cycle for video game content that gets stale quickly -- the operator would have to charge about $300/hr for access. This assumes they could sell 6 hours a day for 365 days, which is so overly optimistic it's laughable. At $600/hr, you might see the light at the end of the tunnel at a year, but who is going to pay that kind of rate outside of the DoD?
- wayneyeager 15y agoI suspect there are some whopping economies of scale to be had here, though. This was a one-off and prototypes do tend to be expensive. BTW, I'll bet 2/3 the cost was that military-grade omnidirectional treadmill. Mass-produce that and you're back into the realm of possibility.