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A virtual reality room with video screens surrounding you
projecting the scene from an actual skyscraper ledge
hundreds of stories up.
As you walk along the model building holding on for dear
life, wind buffets you, the cars move below, clouds even
float by. It's a bit like one of those
rock climbing walls
except that when you fall, the safety lanyard senses this
and all the surrounding screens portray
a
video shot by a 360 degree camera actually dropped
from
the building giving you the feeling that you're actually
falling.
Hey, "Walk Through Rain Room" guys, if you steal this one
at least give me credit this time OK?
Your first jump.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=gXwLNQKpgvc
Shanghai Tower [doctorremulac3, Mar 30 2019]
Makes yer nads crawl almost right inside ya...
https://ca.video.se...d695c13&action=view
...almost. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 01 2019]
/r/SweatyPalms
https://www.reddit.com/r/sweatypalms
For a lot more like the immediately above-linked video (and other scary stuff) [notexactly, Apr 01 2019]
[link]
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Got your back, [doc]. Call me as a witless in the proof of concept/patent case. |
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Well, clock's running now. I've got 12 months till this is
public domain. |
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OK, talking to somebody about this and they said "Sounds
fun but I'm not in good enough shape to do rock climbing
rides like that." |
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So, variation: "Base Jumper". |
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You're in a room with the rest of the people on the ride
and virtually base jump from various structures, mountain
cliffs, etc. |
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When you jump, the high resolution screens around you
portray the fall till you ALMOST hit the bottom, then the
bungee cord gives a slight tug and as you look up, a video
representation of a parachute opening above your head is
shown as you're lowered to the ground. |
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Advantage of this is you could get fifty or so riders in a
circular room with the video screens all around and make
some money by having lots of riders at once. |
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Once everybody has base jumped off of the tallest
building in Hong Kong, they're lifted back up to the ledge
for the next jump. Victoria falls. Half Dome, even Mount
Everest (presumably in a wing suit) |
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I like that. Even if you didn't do the falling video
thing, you could have a scary walk through with
just the video of the upper story view. Maybe like
a tight rope where you have a very thick rope lying
on the ground that you try to keep your balance
on. If you lost your balance, you'd just slip off the
rope an inch or so, but coupled with the video it
could be pretty scary. So people would compare
how many times they "fell", trying again to get
through. |
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Back to the lanyard, I was thinking that the
lanyard's movement of even
a
few feet could simulate the drop so that coupled
with the visual you'd really get an enhanced sense
of
falling. |
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And you could do this as a walk through deal or
just one where everybody is lined up in a harness
and they all drop at once. |
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I've been in those VR flight simulators, they're very
realistic with only a few feet of movement when
coupled with the synced video. |
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An alternative to the lanyard would just be harness
like affairs that you just stood on and held onto.
These could move a few feet to add to the effect
as well. |
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Camp Teacup's lawyers are standing by to create the paperwork absolving Crazy Skyscraper for any knock-on effects in our rapidly disintegrating/sickening/aging user population, such as stroke or heart attack caused by over-excitement. |
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Come to think of it, this is an excellent adjunct to the 'right to die' movement, without the long, lingering misery in hospital beds. Whatta wayta go!! |
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Lol, now THAT'S some out of the box thinking. |
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Please see my comment on Twist And Shout Rope Bridge |
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// Maybe like a tight rope where you have a very thick rope lying on the ground that you try to keep your balance on. If you lost your balance, you'd just slip off the rope an inch or so, but coupled with the video it could be pretty scary. So people would compare how many times they "fell", trying again to get through. // |
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I like that idea, but I suggest putting crash mats on the floor. People will fall in a way that doesn't anticipate landing as soon as they actually will, so they'll get hurt otherwise. |
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They'd have to be see through though so you could see the
video of the "fall" below. |
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They have soft, rubbery see through plastic though, that
shouldn't be a problem. |
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Oh, I guess. I was imagining a VR headset instead of a cave. You could make crash mats with projection screen material on them, and just project the floor imagery onto them. |
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Yea, I'm thinking more of a group experience where you've
got the room full of people, like with a roller coaster. |
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Then VR headsets will be more practical, I think. The only way I know of to make a multi-user cave, where each person sees their own perspective, is the castAR way: use very tightly retroreflective screens, and put the projectors on the users' heads. |
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Yea, but nobody's going to pay ten bucks at an amusement
park to do that. |
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For a home video game console it might be fun though. |
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So you mean kind of exactly like this? [link]... but interactive? |
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I don't get the whole 'let's explore Darwinism' movement that seems to be happening right now so it would probably be a winner with today's market. |
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And wow, yikes!. I'd say anybody doing this for real
should
probably get their head examined while it's still
intact. I can see skydiving* maybe, but this stuff is
insane. |
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Could easily turn into VR Suicide |
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I've never BASE jumped, but I've jumped plenty from planes.
I can see the attraction of BASE, because (a) it's usually
illegal and (b) you get a true sense of height and relative
motion, which you don't completely get when your hanging
out of a plane. (Favourite jump _ever_: hit snow on the
way down; if you've never seen snowflakes coming up at you
at 120mph you haven't lived.) What would scare the shit
out of me is the climb out to the jumping off point. |
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Done right, BASE jumping isn't necessarily dangerous. But
by "right", I'd mean jumping from something over 2500ft and
with enough overhang to give you some space. In that case
it's not so different from a low lob from a plane. |
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//but I've jumped plenty from planes.// |
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And these are planes that had the wings, engines and
fuselage intact? You're a braver man than me. I'd do it but
there'd have to be a better reason than excitement. |
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He's jumped, because he's been invited to leave, the alternative being forciblyexpelled without a parachute. |
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//these are planes that had the wings, engines and fuselage
intact?// More or less. To be fair, the pilots weren't always
people you'd trust with a landing. |
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[MB] was a Chilean revolutionary, during his formative years. |
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Lots of experience "jumping" out of aircraft. |
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The jumping is easy. It's the landing that's tricky. |
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