Project Number
- 16
Title
- A Mountain Bike with Force Feedback for Indoor Exercise
Description
- Immersive virtual environment for exercise and entertainment.
Contact
- Erik Erikson, Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Andrei State, Russell Taylor
Affiliation
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
- +1.919.962.1700
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3175
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- A virtual-reality enhanced exercise environment that is built for exercise and entertainment.
- Using a stationary bicycle with computer-controlled resistance on the rear wheel and a head-mounted display, the rider can explore a virtual environment and experience feedback (including collisions) from the terrain simulation.
- "The goal of this application is to create an interesting and interactive virtual world that makes vigorous exercise entertaining and effective, and encourages experimentation with intuitive navigation in a familiar virtual world."
Sight
- VPL Eyephone models 1 and 2, Pixel Planes 5, Macintosh IIci
Sound
- audio cues
Touch
- RacerMate Computer Trainer, rotary encoder on handlebars, mountain bike
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
- Force feedback of familiar device (bicycle) gives greater sensation of VR experience. Head-mounted display allows higher degree of wide angle view (sweep) of presented environment.
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