| Commercial Vendors | Very Large Motion Platforms | Homebrew Motion Platforms | Hexapod Platforms |
| Commercial Simulators | Entertainment Products | Walking Simulators |
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August Design, Inc. 120 West Lancaster Ave, 3rd Floor, Ardmore, PA 19003-1305 USA phone: 610.642.4000 fax: 610.642.5137 email:engineering@august-design.com http://www.august-design.com |
Ship Motion Simulator using hexapod, adaptable for
VR/entertainment. Skycam: motion platform stablizes camera for large area
flyover. |
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Camber Entertainment Unit 2 Charlwood Court County Oak Way, Crawley West Sussex RH11 7XA UK Phone: +44 (0) 1293 427921/2 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 427925 http://www.camber.com/entertainment |
FX2 – 2 person pod with electric motion base for
coin-op. Morphis multi-seat Pods for motion theatre. |
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Flogiston 16921 Crystal Cave Drive, Austin, TX 78737 USA voice 512 894 0562 fax 512 858 7287 floman@eden.com http://www.flogiston.com |
Patented neutral immersion technology - flochair, flodome,
flostation. Developed under NASA SBIR, four chairs on motion platforms delivered to U. Houston VETL. (pneumatic, electric, hydraulic, and PenRAM) 10/31/99: The flostation has been licensed to Virtogo Inc. |
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GreyStone Technology Incorporated 4950 Murphy Canyon Road San Diego, CA 92123 USA Phone: (619) 874-7000 FAX: (619) 874-7007 http://www.gstone.com |
Mercury VR Platform designed for entertainment venues
encorporates a motion platform. |
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Hydraudyne Systems & Engineering B.V. Kruisbroeksestraat 1, P.O. Box 32, NL-5280 AA Boxtel, The Netherlands Phone.: +31 (0)411 65 19 51 Fax: +31 (0)411 65 14 53 E-mail: s&e@hydraudyne.nl http://www.hydraudyne.nl |
Provided small low cost hydraulic platform to Illusion Inc
(http://www.illusioninc.com) for use in
Indy Car simulators (VRNews July 1997) |
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Instron 100 Royall Street Canton, Massachusetts 02021-1089 USA Tel: (800) 564-8378 Tel: (781) 575-5000 Fax: (781) 575-5725 http://www.instron.com/products/mpl.html |
Argo II 3-DOF Motion Bases and 2 seat pods. |
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McFadden Systems, Inc. 11835 E. Smith Ave, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 USA Ed Robinson edo@aurawebs.com voice (562) 948-4414 Fax (562) 948-1291 http://www.aurawebs.com/mcfadden (may be dead link) |
Motion Platforms provider since 1963. VR Express, ActionRide Threaters |
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Moog Inc. Jamison Road, East Aurora, New York 14052 USA Telephone: 716 687 4000 FAX: 716 687 4467 http://www.moog.com/electrif/electrifying.htm |
Electric motion bases |
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Motionbase Plc. Vale House, 52 Ashton Vale Road, Bristol, BS3 2HQ, UK Phone: (+44)-117-907-7690 Fax: (+44)-117-987-3112 http://www.motionbase.com |
Maxcue servo electric motion platform, Explorer 1 pod
systems |
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Sarnicola Simulations Systems Inc. PO Box 480, 970 Conklin Road Conklin, NY 13748 USA Tel/Fax: 607 724 4021 |
Manufacturer of high quality electric and hydraulic motion
platforms (single seat up through military flight simulator). |
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Servos and Simulation, Inc. 111 Atlantic Andex Point Maitland, FL 32751 USA Tel 407-262-9042 Fax: 407-262-9043 http://www.servos.com |
Manufacturer of flight control loading systems and electric
motion platforms. Formed in 1981. |
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Simtec GMBH Simtec Simulation Technology GmbH Hermann-Blenk-Staße 34 D-38108 Braunschweig Phone: +49 (0) 531 2 15 39-0 Fax: +49 (0) 531 2 15 39-99 E-Mail: info@simtec-gmbh.de http://www.simtec-gmbh.de |
Manufactures hydraulic motion platforms for simulator ride
attractions, flight and vehicle simulators. Has a plug-and-play 6-DOF motion
platform with serial interface and washout filter software. |
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ViRtogo Inc. Brad Engstrand 2658 N Dayton Street Chicago, IL 60614 USA Phone: 1-800-490-5608 Phone: 773/281-6435 Fax: 773/281-1567 E-MAIL: info@virtogo.com http://www.virtogo.com |
Cyber Air Base: pneumatic single seat motion platform Licenced Flogistron technology 10/99 |
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Virtual Motion, Inc. 622 2nd Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 USA Phone: 412-338-2470 Fax: 412-338-2474 http://www.vm3.com/MotionWare |
Unique, patented, motion simulation using galvanic
(electrical) stimulation of the vestibular system |
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US NADS National Advanced Driving Simulator |
http://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/perform/nads
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US NASA VMS Vertical Motion Simulator Complex |
http://www.simlabs.arc.nasa.gov/vms/vms.html
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John Dunkley, Adelaide, Australia |
http://www.senet.com.au/~dunkleyj
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Klaus Schmidinger, Germany |
http://www.cadsoft.de/~kls/fltsim
(See forum for links to articles on platform control software) |
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Laboratory for Micro Enterprise, Oakley Court, Benson, Wallingford OX10 6QH. Phone and fax (44) (0)1491 832932. |
LME Hexapod Machine open source code and links: http://www.i-way.co.uk/~storrs/lme/LMEHexapodMachine.html |
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US NIST RoboCrane |
http://www.isd.cme.nist.gov/projects/robocrane |
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Xerox NanoTech Positional Device |
http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/6dof.html
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Algorithms Inc Phone: (770) 232-4949 E-mail: postmaster@algorithm.com http://algorithm.com |
Graphics, Motion Simulation Programming |
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CAE Electronics Inc. 750 Miller Drive S.E., Suite 100 Leesburg, Virginia 20175 U.S.A. Tel : 703-443-1700 Fax : 703-443-2494 E-mail: webmaster@cae.com http://www.cae.ca |
Commercial and Military Flight Simulators with motion platforms |
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Digitran Simulation Systems P.O. Box 6310 North Logan, Utah 84341-6310 USA Toll Free: 1-800-423-7939 Phone: (435) 752-9067 Main Fax: (435) 752-5888 http://www.digitranhq.com |
Digitran Simulation Systems provides custom training
simulators with motion platforms for the Mining, Petroleum, Vehicle, and
Maritime Crane Industries |
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I-SIM Corporation 2961 W. California Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84104 USA Toll Free 1-888-259-ISIM Telephone (801) 983-9900 Fax (801) 983-9901 http://www.i-sim.com |
Vehicle Simulators incorporating motion platforms |
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Dreamality Technologies, Inc. P.O. Box 6 Tangerine, FL 32777 Voice 352-383-1257 FAX 352-383-9075 http://www.dreamalitytechnologies.com |
Manufacturer of motion base equipped virtual reality simulators for Hang Gliding, Paragliding, Ultralights for entertainment and training. |
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Iwerks Entertainment, Inc. 4540 West Valerio Street Burbank, CA 91505-1046 Phone: (818) 841-7766 Fax: (818) 840-6188 http://www.iwerks.com |
Motion Theatre Rides, 2-8 seat motion platforms |
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Jesler Enterprises Inc. 401 Pido Rd. Peterborough Ont. Canada K9J 6X7 Voice 705 876 0226 fax 705 876 9286 Email: jesler@ptbo.igs.net http://www.ptbo.igs.net/~jesler |
Arcade systems with single person motion bases |
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Mariah Vision3 Entertainment, Inc. 476 Viking Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Ph. (757)431-3290 Fax (757)431-3291 http://www.mariahvision3.com |
Vision3 Racing Sim with 2 person pneumatic motion
base |
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Maxflight 750 Airport Road Lakewood, New Jersey 08701 USA +1 (732) 942-9898 FAX +1 (732) 942-1114 http://www.maxflight.com |
Motion Simulator Pods for interactive an theatre rides
providing 360deg pitch and roll. |
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StrayLight Corp. 150 Mt. Bethel Road Warren, NJ 07059 USA TEL 908 580 0086 FAX 908 580 0092 http://www.strayvr.com |
CyberTron system uses an Orbotron with HMD based graphics/sound system. |
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Thomson Entertainment Gatwick Road, Crawley West Sussex, England RH10 2RL Tel: +44 1293 563799 Fax: +44 1293 563388 Email: entertain@ttsl.co.uk http://www.thomsonentertainment.thomson-csf.com |
Largest entertainment simulator manufacturer in the world
– primarily motion theatres & multi-person pods. |
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Virtual Voyage 9801 Blue Lake Dr. Folsom, CA 95630 Phone: (916) 853-0630 http://www.virtvoyager.com |
Virtual Reality Entertainment Gaming Cockpit Simulator |
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CGSD Corporation 2483 Old Middlefield Way #10 Mountain View, CA 94043 USA tel: 650 903 4920 fax: 650 967 5252 http://www.cgsd.com/OmniTrek.html |
OmniTrek was a prototype walking simulator built for US Army.
(update from Roy’s email) |
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Iwata Lab. Univ.of.Tsukuba http://intron.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp |
Torus Treadmill, Walkthrough Simulator, 6DOF motion platform |
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Omni-Directional Treadmill HomePage http://www.toast.net/~melnandy/odt |
Andrew Mitchell's home page on Omnidirectional Treadmill, links to other sites Website not operational 11/99 |
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US ARMY Dismounted Warrior Network (DWN) http://web1.stricom.army.mil/PRODUCTS/DWN/warrior1.html |
Omnidirectional Treadmill for dismounted infantry ( see CDRL AB06) |
U. Utah - Treadport Locomotion Interfaces http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jmh/Locomotion.html |
U. Utah Immersive Environment Research group research pages on use of Sarcos Treadport. |
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Virtual Space Devices, Inc. 9200 Russell Avenue South Bloomington, MN 55431 V: 612/884-3328 M: 612/986-4862 Email: david@vsdevices.com http://www.vsdevices.com |
Omnidirectional treadmill built for USGovt Website not operational 11/99 |
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VR_Systems U.K. Unit 8, Home Farm Business Centre, East Tytherley Road, Lockerley, Romsey, Hampshire. S051 OLW. UK Tel: (01794) 342050 Fax: (01794) 342051 http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~vr-systems |
Cybersphere: a large, hollow, translucent sphere supported by a ring of bearings |
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