Archive for April, 2008

One step closer to holodeck

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Cyberwalk omnidirectional motion platform

Slashdot today had a cool entry on real walking in virtual reality.  Looks like an important component of the upcoming holodeck I’ll have in the basement of the house we might buy one day… they had hidden a video on the site (http://www.cyberwalk-project.org/):

http://www.cyberwalk-project.org/img/Media/CyberCarpet.mpg

More videos of the thing available here (warning site in Germlish):

http://www.amm.mw.tum.de/index.php?id=250

It’s just a shame it’s so big…

So what’s happening?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Apparently not much…

10 Writing code to pay for beer and unhealthy food

15 Eating unhealthy food and drinking beer

20 Going to the gym to get rid of the beer belly

30 sleep

40 GOTO 10 (more…)