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Cross-trainer with the OR

henrik3141
Honored Guest
Hi Rifters,

i just wanted to share my idea/project i am currently working on with you. As many of you i am still waiting for my devkit (Germany Order ~ 8000) but i recently got a cross-trainer with a serialport and a razor hydra. I wrote a little program in C# to control (and read the data of it) the cross-trainer. My idea is to make a virtual track in Unity and use the razor hydra for positional headtracking and tracking one of the hands. With this it should be possible to ski or drive on an elliptic bike (see picture below) in a virtual world which might be really cool 🙂 . You could for example change the power of the cross-trainer when the terrain changes (uphill/downhill) or when you leave the track.
Only problem is that i am good in C# but not really familiar with Unity or modeling. I tried it a little bit in the last days and i hope this will be fine after spending some time with it. Maybe there are allready some models of elliptic bikes out there which i could use?
Would be nice to know if someone else is also working on something like this and i am looking forward to get some ideas / criticism from you guys.

(And sorry for the bad english and the crappy picture below... its google image search + paint.net ;D )
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Anonymous
Not applicable
You have something in mind like this...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdYrFY01pGY

henrik3141
Honored Guest
Hi,

"RoTaToR1979" wrote:
You have something in mind like this...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdYrFY01pGY


thank you for this link! This looks cool. But i think this would be much nicer with a OR where you can look around + Headtracking. For the immersion i think it would also be better to move in reality like your character does in the virtual world. Thats why i have this idea with the elliptic bike and not running like he is in the video.

But thanks for the video!

everygamer
Explorer
I would suggest looking at this ...

http://mashable.com/2013/04/20/video-games-treadmill-3d-headset/

Of course, this requires buying custom hardware, rather than making use of existing exercise equipment that people might already have. Picture this setup with MW3 or one of the major shooters.

henrik3141
Honored Guest
The motivation behind this is more "having fun doing sports". I know the Omni treadmill and it looks like fun but walking this strange doenst look healthy in my opinion if you do it to long, so you can't use this to do "sports" 😉

The Idea with the cross-trainer aims more at people who have no motivation to user their hometrainer because its boring but dont have time to do real sports outside. But thanks anyway for the hint.