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Yep, and by tilting the spinning discs/cylinders you can have omnidirectional control by changing which part of the edge of the rotating cylinder is in contact
by spyder 3y ago
Yep, and by tilting the spinning discs/cylinders you can have omnidirectional control by changing which part of the edge of the rotating cylinder is in contact with the surface above it.
You don't need the ultrasound thing posted in the other comment, that patent may be a different path they've also tried.
- Groxx 3y agoYeah, I think this is right too. It'd also explain the sound. Feels like a very mechanically-simple strategy, but hard to make durable / safe from fingers (and detecting "skin" vs "shoe" doesn't seem like something you can make foolproof) / that would hurt to fall onto.
- Mtinie 3y agoSociety says that progress goes forward. Toes? Not always.
- oatmeal1 3y agoBeautifully simple that it only has to spin the wheels one direction! I do imagine it has to stop though when the person stops walking. The drawback of this is that it requires a firm contact point like shoes to work. You wouldn't want to walk in socks on this. You also couldn't have a performer lay directly on the surface and transport them across the stage, nor allow them to have baggy clothing near it. Running would be difficult from a balance perspective, not to mention holding a wheel at a particular tilt would require quite a bit of force if someone runs on it. It's going to have a very particular use case for Disney.