News FEEL-VR - universal, affordable for home use motion sim

Hi everyone!

I've started to develop universal motion simulator & gaming chair cause I couldn't find suitable solution for myself.

Primarily it's because of high price or insufficient characteristics of existing devices.

Project codename is 'FEEL-VR' and it is a 2 degrees of freedom seat for gamer that will change pitch and roll to use gravity force and make player feel accelerations, vibrations and angular velocities taken from virtual reality simulation games.

Hope I'll be able to reproduce device to make it available for everyone else, who dreams of affordable yet professional home motion sim, like me)

My main goals are:

• to make it cost less 2500$

• silent operation

• high performance and tilt angles

• highly ergonomical and configurable for racing/flight/etc simulators

• support for mainstream gaming manipulators

• support for VR headsets

• make it look amazing)


That's how it would look:


Hope you like the project so far.

I was wondering when you were going to pop up @Den Krutko
I take it you have not had much response for the other threads you created in other forums
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...for-home-use-motion-sim.326070/#post-10590672
http://www.x-sim.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=1838

Oh and heres what Atomic had to say about the threads, as your design "resembles" their A1 , A2
"
Thanks for the info - we'll keep an eye on this project, at this stage
it's not of particular concern as we have patents and design rights on
our product in the UK and US (also it is far more difficult to build
such a system and make it commercially viable than it would appear this
individual realises! We have other system choices coming soon to
suit various budgets, details of these will be made available soon.
"

Currently I'm going to use own software. The only thing I'm interested in SimTools are game plugins, and I'll dig into this theme later.

VR headsets mostly use gyro data about head pivot, accelerometer data is used mainly to compensate gyro drift, so motion will not affect it strongly.

I'm developing custom electronics for torque motor 1000W 35 Nm each, that have 262k discretes per revolution feedback.

Tilt and roll angles up to +/-15 degrees or even more; gearless = silent, responsive, backlash-free; highly ergonomical design, configurable for every user and sim type; look.

@Den Krutko , to use simtools plugins you will still need to ask for permission , @yobuddy , can you clarify this please?

Yes, that's obvious. I'll read license etc later when I'll come to need of using SimTools (if would)

These are central table, side stand and foot stand parts.

They have screw holes to mount such devices:

Fanatec wheels:
• ClubSport Wheel Base
• Porsche 911 GT2 Wheel / Forza Motorsport CSR Wheel / Porsche 911 GT3 RS V2 Wheel

Fanatec pedals:
• ClubSport Pedals V1 / V2
• CSR Elite Pedals / CSR Pedals

Fanatec shifters:
• ClubSport Shifter

Logitech wheels, pedals and shifters:
• G27 Racing Wheel / G25 Racing Wheel

Thrustmaster wheels and pedals:
• T500RS (vertical/horizontal pedals mount)

Saitek pedals:
• Pro Flight Rudder Pedals

This is a FEEL-VR seat base with table and foot stand.

It is collapsible to take less space.

Central tube is firmly fixed with knob from rotational and linear movements.

Table is detachable for flight-sim configurations of FEEL-VR.

Angle of foot stand can be smoothly adjusted.

Distance from seat base to foot stand can be smoothly adjusted too up to full collapsed state (to take less space when FEEL-VR is not in use).

@Den Krutko , do the right thing and ask him regardless.

Really like the design but i wonder if it is strong enough to not self adjust itself so to say, myself i came to that problem when I tried to upgrade to a new steering and pedals set (T500) wich are much heavier then my old G25, i had to redo a lot of things to make it work and to cope with the heavy weight of the T500' like the balance point and so on.
I would think its a very hard task to make an universal good balanced and real like moving simulator design to fit all of the differentpedals and wheels !
P.S a small word of advice.....ask permission if you use an idea or a program or just a piece of simtools ! That is a normal thing to do not ????
I can not think of doing without it now I know how wonderfull it is and what a great comunity behind it
Anyway i wish you all the luck in building,

@Al.Bundy ,
you said
"P.S a small word of advice.....ask permission if you use an idea or a program or just a piece of simtools ! That is a normal thing to do not ????
I can not think of doing without it now I know how wonderfull it is and what a great comunity behind it "
Its amazing how many people have done that and later get caught.

Concerning COG: I'll use 1000w 35 Nm motors, which are capable of 70 kg push force when recalculated with crankshaft. Also there will be compensatings springs, so I don't see real problem with COG and it's adjustment. Power consumption will be IMHO 10-20% more than balanced, but usability of such system when you don't have to readjust for different riders and gear is much higher.

Concerning VR headset integration - I'll dig into this when I'll have a prototype to test with.
Thanks for support, looks like here is much of valuable info and great community, but concerning permissions - I don't currenty plan to use SimTools software at all for this project, and discovered this forum a week ago)
So everything I did is not concerned with it yet. So can't figure out of what kind of permissions are everybody talking?

This is a FEEL-VR assembled top part in different configurations.

Angles and height of central and side tables (stands) can be smoothly adjusted.

Whole side table stands (including tube) can be adjusted forward-backward.

Trying to overcome a compact poor design with bigger motors