Is it possible to build a game zorb?

Question

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Hello! More recently, games with glasses and motion sensors have begun to appear. After watching a few videos, I realized that the movement in the virtual space does not quite correspond to the real one and I had such a question, is it possible to build such a ball similar to a zorb in which the player will move (run, walk, jump, squat and lie down)? Ball motion sensors can be made to look like old ball mice. The braking of the ball can be made as smooth as the brakes of a car.

Answer 1

Treadmills with clamps for this have already been around for a long time. About a month ago I read an article about a whole installation, where the player puts on a kind of corset, which, in turn, clings to the bracket, turning into a kind of gaming exoskeleton. You can scratch the surface with your feet, the bracket will hold and read turns and turns. Well, a whistle in your hand, of course. It's compact, it's relatively penny and it could very well be Japanese. =) But the main thing - it's elegant. The rotation of a huge ball with a hamster inside is an excess surface. This is a technically losing solution - surface wear, changes in curvature, a lot of revolutions on the sensors (which means the exhaustion of their resource), a large mass, the complexity of manufacturing an even ball (otherwise vibration during movement, sensor failures, noise ...) and cost.
Further, it's all already invented. About 5 years ago, no less, I read about a car simulator, it seems assembled by BMW or Audi. This is such a hangar, there is a three-axis frame and a cabin, which, by moving along the guides, imitates the movement of the car. They did it for advertising purposes, in a fit of "but we can do it." Very cool, fabulously expensive, no one uses now, because behind the eyes of stationary, which only vibrate and tilt. A similar thing, but for flight simulators, now with the Germans, is assembled in MPI as a side project. It also carries the player to all corners of the room without problems, just as no one needs it, except for experiments.
And for the rest, I will reveal a secret - Nintendo Wii or already dying, but still breathing PS Move and MS Kinect. And looking at how the giants, with their multimillion-dollar sales of consoles and other good things, marketing departments and a platoon of PR people, could not convince users of the coolness of the idea, I personally came to the conclusion that no one needs it from the word at all. Except Wii. She has fans of jumping tennis at home in front of the TV, but, please note, the fans are also not numerous.
In Russia, gaming platforms .. no, what are you .. we are all serious guys, we can do well only what we know how to kill people well. We only have indie developers who are obviously not ready for this.

Answer 2

Of course, it’s impossible, as we say, a system of communication by the power of thought, that is, it’s technically possible, but there won’t be enough money even for a closely similar one, and your logic itself is interesting:
In a word, such "logic" is called "whim"!

Answer 3

Really. Only serious investments are needed - about 2-3 million rubles for a working copy. The term is about six months. Least.

Answer 4

This ball, in the sense of a zorb, what diameter should it be so that going forward I do not feel a constant rise, due to the curvature of the inner surface? In theory, from 2 cm per step, a person already feels a slope, in total, the bend should not exceed ~ 1 meter, well, let it be 2 cm, even it seems to me that it will turn out to be too big.