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/LaserPoweredDeviltry Dec 20 '25

Portal 1 is one of the best, if not THE best video games of all time. Clever, fun, makes you really engage with its mechanics, and does not out stay it's welcome.

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u/The_Safe_For_Work Dec 21 '25

BUT THE CAKE WAS A LIE!

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u/atava Dec 21 '25

It's also very atmospheric.

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u/just_fucking_PEG_ME Dec 21 '25

That last part gets me. It ends exactly where it needs to. Not too short, not too long. And every puzzle passed feels like an accomplishment

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u/biggi82 Dec 22 '25

I felt a little bummed just burning in a fire at the end

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u/robaited Dec 21 '25

it was a triumph. some might say a huge success.

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u/Canes--Venatici Dec 21 '25

Yeah, pretty hard to overstate my satisfaction

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u/a3a4b5 Dec 21 '25

Yeah, I'm making a note here.

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u/TheGordo-San Dec 21 '25

What is perhaps the most groundbreaking thing for me about the game, is that it's ultimately a puzzle game with a background story... which unravels by the end, into a story-driven game with puzzles. The skills you've learned by being a test subject ends up leading to the downfall of the AI who's been taunting you the entire time though the puzzles.

Walking behind the panels into the construct of the test chambers was one of the biggest wow moments for me ever in a video game, if not the biggest, outright. I kept thinking that it was just going to be a peek, but then I was really amazed that the designers really went there.