Walking Around in VR Worlds While Looking Like You Desperately Need a Bathroom
One of the biggest challenges to making VR worlds feel believable is finding a way to interact with them, including walking around without walking into a wall IRL. Researchers at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology created a foot-sensing mat that measures a user’s footprints and footsteps and determines where they’re trying to walk in a VR world while they’re actually walking in place.
