New Vest Allows Gamers to Feel the Blows

Dyre Straits · Oct 22, 2007, 09:38 AM

Source: Yahoo Games
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US surgeon working on a "tele-health" breakthrough has devised a way for video game warriors to feel shots, stabs, slams, and hits dealt to their on-screen characters.
A vest designed by doctor Mark Ombrellaro uses air pressure and feedback from computer games to deliver pneumatic thumps to the spots on players' torsos where they would have been struck were they actually on the battlefields

**Mousey** · Oct 22, 2007, 02:01 PM

Doesn't sound very appealing not to me, especially not with my tender shoulder >_>
I wonder how painful the stabs and stuff would be?

clicker666 · Oct 22, 2007, 02:28 PM

I think this rocks! I can't wait until I've got the treadmill or something I can run on and a full VR helmet, all that good stuff. (Hopefully before I'm too old to run lol)

OmegaRED · Oct 22, 2007, 02:41 PM

They had one of these in the 90's and it went the way of the Nintendo power glove.

BlueMak · Oct 22, 2007, 03:22 PM

Mmmm, I would love to see where this will go over the next few years. Perhaps something for other parts of the body too.

Oct 22, 2007, 02:01 PM	#2
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,189 Rep Power: 245 System Specs	Doesn't sound very appealing not to me, especially not with my tender shoulder >_> I wonder how painful the stabs and stuff would be? __________________

Oct 22, 2007, 02:28 PM	#3
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 327 Rep Power: 0	I think this rocks! I can't wait until I've got the treadmill or something I can run on and a full VR helmet, all that good stuff. (Hopefully before I'm too old to run lol) __________________

Oct 22, 2007, 02:41 PM	#4
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	They had one of these in the 90's and it went the way of the Nintendo power glove. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Oct 22, 2007, 03:22 PM	#5
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Mmmm, I would love to see where this will go over the next few years. Perhaps something for other parts of the body too. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*