When the movie "Avatar" came into the cinemas, I was impressed by the idea to jump into an avatar's body and to control it. Some years later I got in touch with the InMoov 3D printed robots. It is a full size humanoid robot which one can build for himself.
The same time I played around with the consumer editition of the Oculus Rift and I was impressed how real it feels to have a virtual environment which you can interact with directly with your hands (using the touch controllers).
With all of these impressions an idea was born. What if you have a full size InMoov robot which you can control with the Rift? Imagine you put on the Rift, take the controllers into your hands and start a program which "logs you in" into the robot.
You could see what the robot sees. When you turn your head, the robot does it the same way. When you lift up your arms and move your fingers, the robot does it the same way.
This yould be really cool. But for what? Yust for playing and saying: Yes, I do it because I am able to do it?
No, I think there are many possible use cases for it, just turn your imagination on and think about what you would do with such a system :). Meanwhile I will start constructing it and then I will see for what I can use it.
So stay tuned, updates will follow.
Ronny
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