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A virtual reality simulation apparatus providing participants with simulations of horizontal walk and walk on slopes and steps with full reality in their feelings in their bodies. The apparatus comprises a walk surface mechanism including a pair of walk plates supporting a participant's feet, a foot

A virtual reality simulation apparatus providing participants with simulations of horizontal walk and walk on slopes and steps with full reality in their feelings in their bodies. The apparatus comprises a walk surface mechanism including a pair of walk plates supporting a participant's feet, a foot bottom-position detecting device for detecting positions of feet-bottoms of the participant moved away from the walk plates, and a walk-plate horizontally-driving device, which horizontally shifts the walk plate, correspondingly to movements of the participant's feet, to cause the foot-bottom to be contacted on the walk plate and keep the participant's trunk in a fixed position. The apparatus has a miniature space and camera mechanism including a miniature space and a camera device which is movable in the miniature space to be placed in a direction imitating a view of the participant and take an image in the miniature space. A control device mixes a previously programmed image and an image taken by the miniature space and camera mechanism to transmit the composite image to an image display and show it to the participant, and controls the walk surface mechanism while causing the same to correspond to the images.

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[ What is claimed is:] [16.] A virtual reality simulation apparatus comprises:an image display showing images to participants;a walk surface mechanism including a pair of walk plates, which are shiftable at least forward, backward, leftward and rightward and support feet of a participant, a foot bot

[ What is claimed is:] [16.] A virtual reality simulation apparatus comprises:an image display showing images to participants;a walk surface mechanism including a pair of walk plates, which are shiftable at least forward, backward, leftward and rightward and support feet of a participant, a foot bottom-position detecting means, including a signal transmission member provided in each shoe used by the participant and a sensor in each of the walk plates, for detecting positions of feet-bottoms of the participant moved away from the walk plates, a walk-plate horizontally-driving means, which shifts the walk plate to allow the foot-bottom of the participant to be placed in a predetermined position and direction on the walk plate and pulls back the walk plate, on which the foot-bottom has trodden or been contacted, toward a trunk of the participant correspondingly to kinds of exercises such as walk and running to keep the participant's trunk in a fixed or constant position, and a walk-plate slantwise-driving means which slants the walk plates to provide simulation of movement on slopes;a miniature space and camera mechanism including a miniature space imitating a space in which the participant moves virtually, and a camera device which is freely movable in the miniature space to be placed in a direction imitating a view of the participant and take an image in the miniature space; anda control device which transmits to the image display a previously programmed image, an image taken by the miniature space and cameramechanism or a composite image including the programmed image and the image taken by the miniature space and camera mechanism, and controls the walk surface mechanism while causing the same to correspond to the images.