VR Innovator AxonVR Brings Virtual Reality You Can Feel
An ad for “AxonVR” started to circulate the internet on the morning of April 19, 2016. Co-founded by Dr. Bob Crockett and Jake Rubin, Axon claims that it will be the first Virtual Reality platform that will bring your whole body into the experience. Utilizing an exoskeleton called the AxonSuit, you will be able to reach out, touch and feel the virtual world you’re immersed into via Virtual Reality.
In the words of the founders, this is what this new piece of body-based VR hardware will aspire to:
“The Axon platform enables realistic, full-body touch in virtual reality for the first time. Slip on the AxonSuit and experience thousands of points of tactile and thermal feedback from your head to your toes. Connect to the AxonStation to add motion tracking and force-feedback.
Together, these technologies bring virtual experiences to life with an unprecedented level of immersion and realism. Scale the limestone pyramids of Giza. Make snow angels on the ice planet Hoth. Tee off like a green jacket master. Feel every moment, with AxonVR.”
AxonVR — The 5-year Plan
According to Dr. Bob Crockett who initially was skeptic to the idea, their Exoskeleton could all be hitting the market in a 5-year time-frame. The notion that there’s a piece of technology that let’s you go beyond the light and sound of “conventional” Virtual Reality, is something that will no doubt shatter yet another barrier between the real world and the virtual one. Innovations like this, goes to show how early we really are, in the development and integration of VR. We’re excited to tag along for the ride, reporting on any further developments of their journey.
To celebrate the great work of the Axon Team, we have dug through their site, and constructed a gallery of the concept design behind the exoskeleton.
What opportunities would be discovered, thought out and set into development if this goes into production and gets acquired by the likes of the Oculus Team? One can only dream, and dream we do.
