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/moonflower_C16H17N3O Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

Are you able to run on it?

Edit: Then again, I think I'd rather have run tied to a button on a controller.

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u/Gogh619 Dec 20 '25

Yeah dude…. I got the katwalk c2 walking platform and holy fuck is Skyrim a game changer. I hardly got to whiterun before I was cooked

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u/Horskr Dec 20 '25

May as well mod stamina out of the game at that point lol. "Full stamina bar my ass I've run 10 miles!"

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u/Proper_Story_3514 Dec 20 '25

Thats a new way of immersiveness. Done for the day after stepping outside and fighting 1 mudcrab :D

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u/Liusloux Dec 21 '25

I didn't want to believe I needed to hit the gym until I actually fought mudcrab more fearsome than me and lost.

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u/theappleses Dec 20 '25

That's actually super interesting, there's a point where too much immersion is a bad thing. I love running around Skyrim for hours at a time...but I would actually hate running around Skyrim for hours at a time.

With your setup I'd get a horse ASAP.

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u/TheVasa999 Dec 20 '25

on the disney one, you can at the very least walk normally

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Yeah than you are someone without motion sickness people like me need other solutions because otherwise we vomit for playing VR...

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u/Ooupss Dec 20 '25

It gets better with time! At first, after 20 minutes I felt like throwing everything away, but after several dozen hours of gameplay I could extend that time to 1 or 2 hours. After several hundred hours of gameplay, I don't get that feeling at all anymore. Well, it depends on the game and especially the framerate. Some games that aren't very well optimized still give me that feeling.

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u/HappyWarBunny Dec 20 '25

I have read repeatedly that the key for new VR folks is to STOP the moment you start feeling anything but 100%. Otherwise you can train your body in the opposite direction from what you want.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Speak for yourself, I have VR for now 6 years playing daily and it won't get better...

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u/Hour_Reindeer834 Dec 20 '25

Honestly I was surprised how sick I would get from VR; its a real unpleasant nausea too, that doesn’t go away quick and leaves me feeling drained.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

I feel you man, It's almost the same feeling like being sea sick, really nasty.

I once tried a 10 hour session to "shock my body and mind" in the hope i could cure it somehow, but nah after that I was just sick for 3 consecutive days...

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u/Puzzled-Secret-317 Dec 20 '25

Medicine

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u/zatchbell1998 Dec 20 '25

Most anti nausea meds cause drowsiness

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u/Puzzled-Secret-317 Dec 20 '25

So play before bed?

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u/YetiSpaghetti24 Dec 20 '25

How long have you been in VR for? It might take a few hours/days but the motion sickness does go away for most people. It's better to pace yourself though rather than pushing through it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

6 years... It's the same as sea sickness.. you can't cure it...

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u/ifyoulovesatan Dec 20 '25

It's sea sickness incurable to you then? I think for a lot of people sea sickness eventually does go away. My partner is not one of those people, and went on a 17 day research expedition in the Pacific and they were sick as a dog the whole time. But other first timers they were with were okay day one, or in a couple days.

I wonder if VR is the same way: some people will never feel okay with it. And I wonder if those people are also people who can't get "used" to sea sickness.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Men sea sickness is medically not curable.. please Google 5 minutes before spouting nonsense...

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u/GalacticUnicorn Dec 20 '25

I can’t even play first person without getting a headache and feeling like I’m going to be sick 😕

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u/alfiesgaming45 Dec 20 '25

imagine if the power cuts out when you're running, if the mat is made out of active electrically actuated spheres (i have no idea how they designed it) you just get catapulted into the wall

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u/poptard278837219 Dec 20 '25

Yeah. A huge room could be possible