Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Okay it's not a live stream yet! But I started developing a game and VR Treadmill because I want to learn geography by using Cesium Ion with Google 3D tiles to visit points on earth and walk around the environment like I am really there! I am also trying to start channel or a live stream around the idea and visit distant locations such as the Grand Canyon, Mt. Fuji, the Eifel tower, maybe even the moon, and talk about the different landscapes and learn about geography in the process!
This is the first actual test of the working VR treadmill and game concept integration with Cesium Ion, a new custom full body IK solvers and the updated Ethernet enabled Arduino treadmill speed controller all running together! There were some bugs and the IK was not perfect but I'm hoping things will get better in time.
This has been challenging to get working but am starting to see results! In the future I want to create tutorials and document the entire setup with parts lists and all Arduino code. But this video is only a quick demo of the concept, showing the body tracking synced with the treadmill encoder to match the real world speed. Also note that the velocity multiplier was set to 1:1 so the avatar walks as fast as IRL , but this value can be adjust to make the avatar appear to walk faster, so the gait may look better in future updates! I am just surprised things even worked!
If you could find time to please leave a comment or click like or share buttons that would so appreciated!!
I really hope you enjoyed the stream concept and please share your thoughts or any suggestions in the comments!!
Check out this related tweet
Using a Arduino to control treadmill speed from Value Index controllers: https://x.com/MocapFusion/status/1912773671908741293
Okay it's not a live stream yet! But I started developing a game and VR Treadmill because I want to learn geography by using Cesium Ion with Google 3D tiles to visit points on earth and walk around the environment like I am really there! I am also trying to start channel or a live stream around the idea and visit distant locations such as the Grand Canyon, Mt. Fuji, the Eifel tower, maybe even the moon, and talk about the different landscapes and learn about geography in the process!
This is the first actual test of the working VR treadmill and game concept integration with Cesium Ion, a new custom full body IK solvers and the updated Ethernet enabled Arduino treadmill speed controller all running together! There were some bugs and the IK was not perfect but I'm hoping things will get better in time.
This has been challenging to get working but am starting to see results! In the future I want to create tutorials and document the entire setup with parts lists and all Arduino code. But this video is only a quick demo of the concept, showing the body tracking synced with the treadmill encoder to match the real world speed. Also note that the velocity multiplier was set to 1:1 so the avatar walks as fast as IRL , but this value can be adjust to make the avatar appear to walk faster, so the gait may look better in future updates! I am just surprised things even worked!
If you could find time to please leave a comment or click like or share buttons that would so appreciated!!
I really hope you enjoyed the stream concept and please share your thoughts or any suggestions in the comments!!
Check out this related tweet
Using a Arduino to control treadmill speed from Value Index controllers: https://x.com/MocapFusion/status/1912773671908741293
