A whole new meaning for "Portable" Dance Floor

[Chris Stratton]

Some reasearchers are working on floor tiles that shift around to stay under your feet as you walk, for virtual reality simulations. I wonder if we could dance on them? They even want to make a version that can handle uneven sub terain - foxtrot in the back yard?

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/081104/Shifty_tiles_bring_walking_to_VR_Brief_081104.html

[jon]

Having seen their hardware at SIGGRAPH last week, it will be an awfully long time before it's commercializable (and wouldn't be cheaper than a small dance floor even then). Also hard to see how this could work even in principle with a dancing couple not in closed position.

They spent more time fiddling with getting the hardware functioning safely than doing demos :-(

[Vince A]

Having seen their hardware at SIGGRAPH last week, it will be an awfully long time before it's commercializable (and wouldn't be cheaper than a small dance floor even then). Also hard to see how this could work even in principle with a dancing couple not in closed position.

They spent more time fiddling with getting the hardware functioning safely than doing demos :-(
Back to uneven, screwed-down 39 inch wood squares, jon . . .