ARAIG Gaming Suit is "As Real as it Gets"

Peace Frog

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I do want something like this (and the STIMs feedback sounds great) but I feel like that's too much money to shell out for a kickstarter, since there's no guarantee it'll work well or we'll see much software which integrates it.
 

afroebob

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The suit will cost $300, the Oculus Rift will be $300 and the Omni Treadmil will be $400-$600, so complete Virtual Reality will cost around $1000-1200 bucks... This might actually be worth it, at least if the tech is reliable enough so that you don't have to replace it every 3 years.

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Our sensory system, for lack of a better word, is very complex, and to think you can fool it with a few rumbly pads and a light electric shock is just insulting really...
Nobody claims Rumble feels like your actually shooting an automatic rifle, but people still like the feel of it non the less.
 

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Um... As fascinating as this sounds, even assuming it does what it claims, I have a few doubts that is barely mentioned on their kickstarter...

Basically, the design of their prototype suit, and in particular the 'stims' features look like they wouldn't fit very well with female anatomy. What, with the whole breasts thing and all that. I mean, where are the pectoral muscles located on a woman? Right...

I can't exactly say I'm looking forward to all kinds of forces and electrical currents (if I'm understanding it correctly) being applied to my breasts either. They're pretty sensitive you know. XD

Ahem. Their video did show a very brief glance suggesting they've given a bit of thought to the issue, but it remains a concern that they feel no need to mention much of anything about it at all.
 

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Being shot repeatedly with a rifle while health autoregenerates? Thanks but no thanks. i dont play games to experience pain.
No way, this could be genius for marketing.

If it happens like that, I expect games with health percentages, and health packs, making a come back. Think of it, after a fight, your whole body is aching, you can barely move, but then a health pack appears in the debris, you touch it, suddenly you feel better than you ever have before. The packs are like drugs that you just can't quit.

So many health pack plushies and posters and coffee mugs will be sold, they'd be more popular than the companion cube.
 

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Nor does the recoil make your muscles contract. What it does is compress the tissue, quickly and violently, some more then others...

If an argument is made that peripherals like this are not designed to give an "authentic" experience then I must simply ask what is the point?
No your muscles actually do contract quite severely to counter the recoil, otherwise you would be flopping around like jelly for minutes after each shot. I know it wouldn't seem that way but we never do observe to what muscles we move, it is simply handled by our system on instinct, which is why it can be very easily exploited for virtual feedback.

Obviously electroshock can't produce every sensation but done accurately it could be a decent representation, just like pixels on tiny screens and select noises in our speakers are taken as a decent representation of a game world.
However people need to understand the first commercial attempt of this feedback west will be more like Pong rather then Crysis.
 

Callate

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So, they took one of those rumble-feedback stereo speaker "gaming" chairs, cross-bred it with a massage chair, flattened it, and strapped it to your body?

Great! I've really been looking for a gaming peripheral that could beat the ever-loving crap out of me!

Oh, I'm sorry, but, no pun intended, I'm not feeling this one. At worst, you get a device that delivers an unimpressive buzzing sensation to various parts of your body in response to every cued action in a game. (Actually, at worst you get a poorly-tested body suit that constricts part of your body like an overzealous blood pressure cuff until you start screaming for someone to pull the plug, but let's stick to realism, here.) At best, you get something that can actually produce sensations that contribute to a feeling of immersion in your game- and wait forever for one more Kickstarter project to become mainstream enough that there's support for the thing in games you want to play while everyone's falling over themselves to support the Occulus Rift.
 

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Nice. Can't wait to play a Metal Gear Solid game with one of these on....I'll just keep my fingers crossed so we don't get a lot of torture scenes in the next games...
 

Gatx

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First thing to pop into my mind - pain. Second thing - let's just say it's not family friendly.

Seems fairly selective about the kinds of sensations you'd feel though, I feel like there's too much disconnect.
 

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Yep, only reaffirms my belief that those ol' 60s and 70s television shows and comic books were right. The twenty-first century is the future. We just took a bit longer to get it started than they thought it would.

Seriously, from developing laser technology that might just phase out nukes, to this? We're in the future. Now hurry up science, we need biological, or mechanical, or even digital immortality already. And then awesome space travel FTL technology.
 

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Nice. Can't wait to play a Metal Gear Solid game with one of these on....I'll just keep my fingers crossed so we don't get a lot of torture scenes in the next games...
On the plus side, it appears to lack pants, so we don't need to worry about any future crotch-fondling shenanigans.
 

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CriticalMiss said:
They should call it the Crazy Real As It Gets suit, then the acronym is CRAIG which is less dumb. Odd, but less dumb.

I'd like to know how this thing copes with boobs. Or is it exclusively a boys toy?
After quickly skimming the Kickstarter page, they apparently have two versions. Their "ARAIG Architecture" image lists both an "Exoskeleton Male" and an "Exoskeleton Female." Don't know what their plans are regarding producing suits for various body shapes or cup sizes, but at least they have something in the works.
 

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Didn't something just as rediculous already exist? I seem to recall some kind of FPS flak jacket setup that was hooked up to an air compressor, that would give you blasts of air to the torso in accordance to what direction you just got shot from.

While I'm fine with this century seemingly wanting to go back to the late 80's and early 90's visions of virtual reality gaming, I'm not fine with the idea of slapping on ton of equipment that makes you look like something from The Lawnmower Man [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCxFGxqLsHE].
 

DrunkOnEstus

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Japan! Make a porn game featuring this suit and the oculus rift. Or actually don't do that, considering that whole underpopulation issue.
 

BleedingPride

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Oh dear lord I hope tickling is not the case, that's just a lot of bladder accidents just waiting to happen.
 

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BleedingPride said:
So what happens if you get shot exactly...? I assume it won't be so bad, but I just want to know exactly how that's being dealt with.
It's probably like the 3D effects in movies or the 3DS: Too hard to explain properly, you'd have to try it out to get an idea.

OT: This has sooo much potential, I hope it doesn't turn out to be a disappointing, underwhelming flop like the Kinect. At least Nintendo had the decency to make their 'gimmicks' such touch screens and motion controls responsive.
 

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Or you could go outside, it actual reality! losers And it won't turn you into a sociopathic murderer!

I'm kidding obviously because I want one.
 

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Moontouched-Moogle said:
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Nice. Can't wait to play a Metal Gear Solid game with one of these on....I'll just keep my fingers crossed so we don't get a lot of torture scenes in the next games...
On the plus side, it appears to lack pants, so we don't need to worry about any future crotch-fondling shenanigans.
Good point...damn Volgin and his questionable identity checking techniques.