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Sébastien Kuntz
Personal blog · cb.nowan.net/blogscienceprogramming
Sébastien Kuntz writes Sébastien 'Cb' Kuntz, a personal blog at cb.nowan.net about science and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's redirected walking posts, which cover VR techniques that let people walk through large virtual spaces in a small physical room. They are cited as examples and sources on that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2008/12/02/redirected-walking-playing-with-your-perceptions-limits/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-15
What Hacker News says?
http://cb.nowan.net/blog/2008/12/02/redirected-walking-playi... I think you were searching for that. It seems it also comes from the Max Plank institute.
Comment linking /blog/2008/12/02/redirected-walking-playing-with-your-perceptions-limits/
on “Cable Robot Simulator [video]”Yeah, that's a pretty cool concept. Here's an example: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-virtual-reality-team-infinite-e... edit: Actually, that doesn't seem to be what I was thinking of. Here are some examples of redirected walking: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/109/1/AISAT-Redirected.pdf http://vrguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/redirected-walking-can-sav... http://cb.nowan.net/blog/2008/12/02/redirected-walking-playi...
Comment linking /blog/2008/12/02/redirected-walking-playing-with-your-perceptions-limits/
on “Valve's SteamVR solves big problems and poses bigger questions”Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSodRhEvA8 My favorite one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQw1tsgrJOs There's also this suggestion which just puts a piece of floor under you where you need, but currently it seems a bit scary to try. I imagine if I suddenly jumped to some direction I would end up falling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsvB2y2Ero These are all from a blog I found: http://cb.nowan.net/blo…
Comment linking /blog/tag/locomotion/
on “One Step Closer To A Holodeck: Eon's ICube”