Crossing Britain while sitting at home
Jan 23, 2017

Crossing Britain while sitting at home

British programmer Aaron Puzey took traveling to a whole new level. He cycled Britain, from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, in virtual reality. He traveled 900 miles.

Aaron has built an application using a Galaxy Gear VR headset, a simple bluetooth cadence monitor and his android smartphone. The program is called CycleVR. It works with stereoscopic 3D on the Gear, which shows a scene and creates the impression of bike riding. To generate his 3D environment, the programmer used Google Street View. Impressively, he was able to track simultaneous pedal rotations via a bluetooth cadence monitor.


His results of traveling in VR: 900 miles ridden, 85 hours on the clock, an average speed 17.6kph, over 50,000 calories burned, about 300 villages and 22 counties visited.


Aaron: “My journey took about 85 hours of cycling time spread over 8 months. I have the whole thing archived but if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like sifting through hours of footage here’s another video with my entire journey compressed into 3 minutes!”

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