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VR environment for stationary cycling, Using Google street view.

Autor: admin
09.12.2009

This project uses a head-mounted-display that has sensors for detection of orientation so that the user can be placed into a Google StreetView scene and can look around freely. For movement through the map, an exercise bike used to estimate forward movement using a simple reed switch that counts the number of revolutions of the wheel.

Pragmatically explained, it means that I don’t have to sit in the darkness or stare at my garage door while I’m huffing away. Hopefully once this is done, I’ll be able to spend a few nights a week pedalling away downstairs and work my way across the US or Australia over the course of the year. The irony of this project is, well, while it’s supposed to help me entain myself while using the exercise bike, the project itself has been keeping me from exercising. Oh well.

It is also a project that I would be thrilled if someone took the idea and made a decent implementation out of it. Make it user focused and reliable and I’ll be the first to use it.

Source: http://bako.ca/streetview-riding/

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