{"id":47981,"date":"2019-02-12T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=47981"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:04:35","slug":"beat-saber-has-increased-the-known-limits-of-human-endeavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/02\/12\/beat-saber-has-increased-the-known-limits-of-human-endeavor\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Saber has increased the known limits of human endeavor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SteamVR, the virtual reality control system from Valve for Steam, has been beta <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/250820\/announcements\/detail\/1739981528112958921\">updated<\/a> thanks to data gleaned from Beat Saber players. According to Valve, they coded &#8220;sanity checks&#8221; into their tracking system based on what they thought was the upper limit of physical motion. Exceeding those checks caused errors as the system interpreted that data as tracking mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It turns out that a properly motivated human using a light enough controller could go faster (3600 degrees\/sec!) than we thought.&#8221;<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beat Saber players were turning their hands from palms up to palms down, and vice versa, in 50 milliseconds. Add that to the same pile as &#8220;the four-minute mile will never be broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteamVR, the virtual reality control system from Valve for Steam, has been beta updated thanks to data gleaned from Beat Saber players. According to Valve, they coded &#8220;sanity checks&#8221; into their tracking system based on what they thought was the upper limit of physical motion. 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