The Two Bit Circus VR app made you feel like you were on a window-washing platform on a skyscraper.
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Two Bit Circus combines VR and motion simulator to make you feel vertigo on a skyscraper

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Two Bit Circus showed off a demo that conveyed just how real you could make virtual reality feel. Staged at the Experiential Technology Conference, the demo consisted of a motion platform that could shake under your feet and an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

The demo, created in collaboration with Applied VR, made you feel like you were going up the side of a skyscraper in a window-washing platform. You stepped on the platform and put on the headset. There was a rail behind you that you could hold onto and a gate in front of you. As I went up the side of the building, I peered over the rail, looking down on the ground. I must have gone up 40 floors.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.