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Virtual environments are becoming more realistic all the time, but walking around naturally inside of them has 3 proven to be an intractable problem. Now a team of researchers led by Hiroo Iwata at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and the University of Tsukuba in Japan has developed a novel, self-contained walking simulator that allows a person to stroll in any direction indefinitely in cyberspace while remaining in one place in the real world. Called the CirculaFloor, the mechanism consists of a set of movable, "holonomic" floor sections with omni-directional ...