<story><title>Omni: The &quot;Oculus Rift&quot; of 3D Treadmills</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duked</author><text>I completely agree, I was very excited until I saw the special shoes requirements. While I can see how it works, I don&amp;#x27;t really understand why they couldn&amp;#x27;t use a regular treadmill belt with some piezoelectric sensor to detect lateral movements.</text></item><item><author>mikeknoop</author><text>The &amp;quot;aha&amp;quot; moment for me, as an outsider to this industry, is using a special shoe to reduce friction and increase lateral stability versus only focusing on developing a 3D treadmill itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uptown</author><text>Because something capable of achieving that currently looks like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8eVcN2z3k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=d-8eVcN2z3k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msci440q18s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=msci440q18s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think about it.  How do you accomodate movement along multiple axis simultaneously using treadmill technology in a compact, affordable, game-room-sized package?</text></comment>
<story><title>Omni: The &quot;Oculus Rift&quot; of 3D Treadmills</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duked</author><text>I completely agree, I was very excited until I saw the special shoes requirements. While I can see how it works, I don&amp;#x27;t really understand why they couldn&amp;#x27;t use a regular treadmill belt with some piezoelectric sensor to detect lateral movements.</text></item><item><author>mikeknoop</author><text>The &amp;quot;aha&amp;quot; moment for me, as an outsider to this industry, is using a special shoe to reduce friction and increase lateral stability versus only focusing on developing a 3D treadmill itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaron695</author><text>&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t really understand why they couldn&amp;#x27;t use a regular treadmill belt with some piezoelectric sensor to detect lateral movements.&lt;p&gt;Other than the obvious reason as they say, no moving parts(min 4 motors, moving belts etc) How would this work? How would one get coverage on a cone shaped walking zone, sounds to me like an engineering nightmare?</text></comment>