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Take a ride on Positron’s Voyager, a full-motion chair for VR cinema |
March 13, 2017
Watching Tom Cruise embark on a dangerous mission aboard a zero-gravity plane sounds terrifying enough, but experiencing it next to him in a motion simulator is next-level.
Thanks to Positron’s Voyager, a full-motion chair designed for cinematic VR, I got to do just that. A fleet of Voyagers are available to demo during South by Southwest as part of a promotion for the upcoming Tom Cruise action flick, The Mummy. The Voyager looks like an egg-shaped pod chair, but it’s far from an ordinary theater seat. It swivels, tilts, and provides haptic feedback to immerse you into whatever scene is unfolding in front you. But it doesn’t just stop there—the Voyager was designed to be paired up with VR headsets. Content is viewed through VR, but felt IRL.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3179378/sxsw/take-a-ride-on-positrons-voyager-a-full-motion-chair-for-vr-cinema.html#tk.rss_all
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