Archenemies for decades, video games and exercise are about to unite. Atlas is a cheap, new “walk-around” virtual reality system that uses markers you put on the ground to track your movements as you play with an Oculus Rift headset.
Sandys VR's insight:
Uh, pretty cool. Position-tracking is one of the key parts of VR. Unfortunately it also gets more expensive as it has to get more precise. I wonder how precise Atlas is and how accurate it can track your position. It seems like they're using some kind of fiducials or other optical markers to locate your position in a room mapped before. If you watch the video closely sometimes you can see little jumps, this seems to be a delay in the recognition of the markers by the iPhone. Great idea though! I hope this kind of technology will become more popular soon to have more reasonable priced but accurate solutions available.