Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset
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At SXSW this year, people will be able to ride the Honda UNI-ONE while wearing a virtual reality headset and play a choose-your-own VR adventure.

At the upcoming SXSW Conference… Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device… specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences.

Users can steer… without the use of their hands — they simply have to lean into one direction to move forwards, backwards, sideways or diagonally.

Wall-e humans in mobile chairs with AR

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    8 months ago

    The mixed reality actually makes this make sense.

    The big draw back with that is weight and battery life. Throwing it on a scooter negates all that, only the display and audio needs to be in the head unit.

    And hands free steering frees them up to navigate the mixed reality.

    If they’re smart about it, it can monitor wait times and distance, maybe even how many are enroute to each ride. So no matter where you are, you know how long till your on any ride.

    Like sure, dystopian as fuck.

    But the people in Wall-E had a life sooooo much better than modern Americans. Unless there was some Morlock worker group we never saw

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      I watched Wall-E last weekend. They didn’t mention in the Buy-N-Large advertisement that the Morlock worker group was left on earth to starve when the upper class was sent to live on a luxury liner.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        I mean, it’s not going to happen anyways.

        No park would get these, because people would just zoom around the park and wait in huge lines.

        They want people walking slow and getting tired so you buy a $10 fountain drink and $15 soft pretzel. The want parents tired and stopping at games/shops for a break and their kid begging for money