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This head-tracking spinning chair could make VR less nauseating

The Roto VR Explorer being used by a gamer wearing a Meta Quest VR unit.
The Roto VR Explorer chair can make VR feel more immersive by spinning in response to the user’s head movements. | Image: Rotovrltd

The Roto VR Explorer chair is designed to make VR experiences feel more immersive (and less nauseating) by pairing real-world movements with what’s seen in a headset. By simply spinning a sitting user in place, it’s able to do that in a much smaller footprint than other solutions like the Virtuix Omni treadmill or Disney’s Holo Tile treadmill.

It looks like an office chair, but the Roto VR Explorer is distinguished by an oversize wheeled base with an integrated electric motor that can spin a seated user at speeds of up to 21 revolutions per minute. The chair will automatically rotate left and right to match the head turns of a user wearing a Meta Quest headset, but instead of relying on movement data captured by the Quest, the Roto VR…

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