[jamesjyu]

This is also true for a plethora of sports games as well, specifically racquet based games. Swinging the racquet is less than half the battle -- footwork, in most physical types of activities, is much more important.

Omnidirectional treadmill? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_treadmill

[msutherl]

These things are ridiculous. Researcher: "We need an omnidirectional treadmill, but how?" Engineer: "Oh, that's easy. We'll just make a gigantic TREADMILL OF TREADMILLS."

[eru]

That engineer would make a good Haskell programmer.

[warmwaffles]

or lisp, take your pick

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Omnidirectional treadmill?

About 3:50 into the video entitled "The weeds" Mr. Stepehnson says "We're going to start with an off-the-shelf controller that anyone can buy today. This eliminates the risk that we'll blow this by failing on some ambitious custom hardware project. From there we'll iterate based partly on your feedback. "

So no treadmills at first.