On: Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

[dymk]

Maybe not if you do it slowly. One hack that room-scale VR systems do to make you feel like you're in a larger space is subtly curve the direction you're walking, so you end up walking in a large arc but you "see" you're walking in a straight line. It's subtle enough for most people to not notice.

[mcapodici → dymk]

That makes me think - if you can do that you can also make it emulate hyperbolic space or spherical space which would be interesting.

[pi-e-sigma → dymk]

Can you link to a pic of such a room? The idea seems interesting

[jtvjan → pi-e-sigma]

I'm not sure about a room with this, but I remember seeing a demo of this concept some years ago: https://youtu.be/1orUctibUow

The keyword is "redirected motion/walking".