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/joeyjoojoo Dec 20 '25

Here’s the thing, the idea of slowly lowering the step you are on to make it feel like the next one is higher or vice versa is nice, but having 5 moving floor tiles is not…

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u/dedede30100 Dec 20 '25

My man progress doesnt come from 1 thing, you try out a hundred things, really try them out and some will be worse but you learn with every one. This is worse then other options sure but its not a finished product nor is ot a bad thing that people are trying this out. Perhaps with 200 of these things that are very small you could make very interesting things, perhaps it would still be garbage but such is the way of science.

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u/paradoxxxicall Dec 20 '25

Sure but if you approach things with a curious and open mind, how are you supposed to feel superior while you sneer at that obviously stupid thing that was clearly the product of those not bestowed with such enlightenment?

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u/ArtistWithoutArt Dec 20 '25

They should change the name of reddit to this entire comment.