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Treadmill concept : Hip Control
Most VR Treadmills I've seen so far are built around the idea of including a mobile 360° rotating part (usually a ring) that let's you face and walk in the real life direction you want. But what if...
Without the treadmill actually being omnidirectional, you wouldn't be able to walk any direction, just forward and backwards. Plus turning your body doesn't quite works the way you describe it - instead of rotating your hips, you shift your mass centre to the side so that you gain centripetal acceleration from earth gravity, that turns your walking direction. Similarry to the way an airplane turns by misaligning lift vector with gravity vector by rolling, creating centripetal superpositional force vector that continiously pulls an airplane to the side, which results in a circular turn. If you stay in place it would work though.