flostation

The flostation was the result of a NASA SBIR to develop the chair as a training system for astronauts. The original idea was to mount the chair on a small motion base so that the astronaut would recline in the neutral body posture of zero gravity and receive motion cuing from the base while wearing VR goggles. During testing, I found that the head mount displays tended to go in different directions from the head of the test subject when the chair moved, so I developed the flodome, which provided a full field of view when a projected image was shown on the screen.

Two of the four systems I delivered to NASA

I developed a version without a motion base and showed it at Siggraph in New Orleans in 96. I called it a flostation. Later I added the equipment tower.

Flostation for the University of Alberta

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