Seamless-walk
THE INTELLIGENT CARPET CAPTURES HIGH-RESOLUTION FOOT PRESSURE IMPRINTS IN REAL TIME AS THE USER MOVES AROUND BY MEASURING THE APPLIED PRESSURE THROUGH RESISTANCE CHANGES.
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and MIT researchers have developed a foot-based VR locomotion system called "Seamless-walk" that promises a more comfortable experience without bulky equipment.
The "intelligent carpet" sensor captures real-time foot pressure data processed by a machine learning model using K-means clustering.
- The system determines the user's body direction and foot intervals to estimate movement speed and angle for an immersive VR experience.
- During tests with 80 participants, Seamless-walk demonstrated better performance than existing VR locomotion methods.
- Seamless-walk has a modular structure that allows for scalable and cost-effective installation of a touch-sensing platform.
- The team plans to add more detailed gait analysis functions to the system.
- The researchers envision future applications for the technology in the healthcare, fitness, and gaming industries for fall detection, health monitoring, and gym-based assessments.
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