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Battle Ball for Sailor Training

virtuspheredt.jpgThe Navy Newstand has a quick run-down of the VirtuSphere — a nine-foot plastic ball that sits on wheels enabling unlimited rotation in any direction. It makes virtual reality feel a whole lot more real.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is developing systems like VirtuSphere as part of a program called Virtual Technologies and Environments (VIRTE). A user, wears a wireless head-mounted display (HMD) that displays landscape, and can update continuously as the service member moves, by detecting changes in orientation. Much of the work with VIRTE focuses on the needs of the Marine Corps.

The ONR selected VirtuSphere for the VIRTE program last fall. The VirtuSphere allows the trainee to walk, run, and crawl in any direction, adding a further dimension of realism to virtual training. The ball can be disassembled, the entire kit fits in a car for transportation, and it weighs less than 500 pounds. There are a number of videos available for those with some time to kill.
Besides the military training application, there are obviously a ton of other possibilities for this product. The company is based in Redmond, Washington, so I hope that they’re working with the Softies to hook this bugger up to an XBox 360. Sort of an XBox 3603.
Murdoc

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It would be fun if we could play DOOM with this.

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Brian April 6, 2006 at 8:27 pm

I’ve always wondered… how do they CRAWL in this thing? The floor is round, right?

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Now if they could get a treadmill type device that’d change to your orientation so you could have a 6′ flat surface on the bottom…

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Wont he fall out the hole, if i walks toward the camera???

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eric April 10, 2006 at 9:59 pm

they probably cover the hole.

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Flora April 11, 2006 at 12:23 am

great idea; i know it’s been a hit with my hamsters for ages.

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Rob April 11, 2006 at 7:17 am

How ’bout we just have the guys fight in these things. Big steel balls (Not that our guys don’t already have balls of steel!) to protect them from incoming fire. Imagine thousands of these charging across the battle field.

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neil thompson April 19, 2006 at 7:58 pm

as a member of the armed forces i think it is a good idea some realistic training about time

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sirsnipe June 15, 2006 at 11:01 am

doenst look like he has headphones on, perhaps they will surround the ball with 50.1 suround sound, if they did that the speakers would have to work in conjunction to witch way you are facing, so that you know what is behind or infront of you, prolly easier to go with surround sound headphones.

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