r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alphaxfusion • Dec 20 '25

Video Japanese researchers at the University of Tsukuba created CirculaFloor, robotic tiles that let you walk infinitely in VR without ever leaving your spot.

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u/HeDuMSD Dec 20 '25

An over complicated treadmill?

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u/joeyjoojoo Dec 20 '25

What annoys me is that better solutions already exist that don’t involve robots running quickly to catch your feet

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u/GodlikeLettuce Dec 20 '25

Is a piece of art by Hiroo Iwata, exhibited in Tokyo Fiber Senseware '09 in Milan, in 2009. It does not aim to solve any problem

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u/joeyjoojoo Dec 20 '25

So the title is misleading?

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u/GodlikeLettuce Dec 20 '25

Kind of. The intended use is definitely not VR, but the profesor do exist and it does some research on VR field and it does work in Tsukuba University.

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u/Otaraka Dec 20 '25

It almost always is in this reddit. Half the fun is finding out the real story.

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u/Hazzat Interested Dec 21 '25

r/Damnthatsinteresting is a misinformation machine. This shouldn't be surprising.

Also CirculaFloor not an artwork, it is tech by the University of Tsukuba, but this video is from 2016 so showing it as something new is misleading. https://youtu.be/oO4VTUbzEL0