The Gwangju Institute of Science and Know-how (GIST) introduced on Nov. 20 {that a} analysis workforce led by Prof. Kim Seung-jun from the AI Convergence Division has developed digital actuality (VR) expertise that makes use of car acceleration and deceleration actions to create the feeling of vertical motion just like driving an airplane even inside a automobile.
With this expertise utilized, it turns into attainable to expertise flying via the sky with simply common car driving. It’s anticipated that various and new content material could be created within the leisure, training, and tourism sectors of the autonomous driving period.
The analysis workforce devised a brand new method known as “gravitoinertial retargeting.” This expertise reinterprets the sensation of the physique leaning backward when a car accelerates and the sensation of being pushed ahead when it decelerates as ascent and descent in VR. For instance, when a car accelerates quickly, a sensation of rising upward is of course induced, and when it decelerates quickly, a sensation of falling downward happens. This is applicable the cognitive psychological attribute that people can’t clearly distinguish between gravity and acceleration, particularly the “gravity phantasm” precept skilled by pilots and drivers.
Prof.r Kim mentioned, “This analysis has nice significance in that it overcomes the constraints of in-vehicle VR that was confined to horizontal motion, enabling multidimensional experiences equivalent to flying, ascending, and descending with out precise vertical motion,” including “Within the period of autonomous car commercialization, growth will prolong to varied fields together with leisure, training and coaching, and theme park-type experiences.” He continued, “We plan to develop this additional by incorporating car left-right tilting to implement VR experiences shut to finish flight simulation on roads.”
This analysis, supervised by Prof. Kim and carried out with grasp’s pupil Kim Bo-cheon as first writer, was supported by the Nationwide Analysis Basis of Korea’s “Improvement of Actuated XR Techniques Based mostly on Mushy Robotics and Sensory Intelligence for Embodiment between Actuality and Digital” analysis venture and the GIST-MIT Bodily AI Analysis Heart. It was carried out as a part of the joint analysis venture between GIST and the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how (MIT) titled “HCI+AI Convergence Analysis for Human-Centered Bodily System Design.” The analysis outcomes had been offered on Oct. 11 at IEEE ISMAR (Worldwide Symposium on Combined and Augmented Actuality) 2025, essentially the most prestigious worldwide convention within the fields of human-computer interplay and digital/augmented actuality.
