diamond park (Score 1)

The first example of this I saw was Diamond Park in 1995, a 3d virtual world from Mitsubishi ER Labs that you navigated on a bicycle. Then Georgia Tech published a bike race virtual environment based on the olympics in '97, that project is still going. My gym at work has 2 Tectrix VR exercise bicycles with video monitors and left/right turn by leaning that give you the option of a winter tour, island tour, or basic games, you can do any of the above with 2 players, and you can set it to pay attention to hills or not... I find that using it instead of the regular exercise bike I will get a lot more violent, as if I were playing a real sport, a lot more cardio workout, and it's fun when you go to the gym with a friend, whereas with the other I just plot along reading my magazine or book... but they don't make them anymore, according to the gym, so when they break, we're SOL. www.bodyquest.com claims to still sell them, but I think their website is just out of date.