Gaming Vest Makes Being Shot at in FPS Games Hurt!

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Next time your character gets shot while playing Call of Duty it could hurt for real. A tactile gaming vest created at the University of Pennsylvania can make wearers feel a punch or a gunfire hit in sync with what’s happening on screen.

Ouch!

“The idea is to develop a haptic interface for first person shooting games,” says Saurabh Palan, a graduate student at the university who is working on the project, on his website. “The feeling of bullet hit, body impact and vibration or a shoulder tap will enhance the gaming experience and fun.”

It’s not all play with the vest. It can be modified for real time simulation and training by the military, says Palan.

The vest uses four solenoid actuators in the chest and shoulders in front, and two solenoids in the back, explains IEEE Spectrum. Vibrating motors clustered against the shoulder blades simulate a reaction similar to getting stabbed. All the components are controlled and linked to the game such that the appropriate solenoid “fires” depending on where the character in the video game is getting hit.

IEEE Spectrum says the entire experience is “closer to a paintball excursion, but it doesn’t hurt as much.” Still the gaming vest sounds pretty masochistic to me. But for those who crave greater realism in their video games, this could be a good way to feel the pain without the bruises.

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Source: Wired

Pretty neat if you ask me.

Just be sure to avoid being shot, tea-bagged, and stabbed.

Maybe it'll stop 10 year old's thinking their rambo.

Unless one of those 10 year old's turns out to be Rambo :O:

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Originally Posted by Surface

Maybe it'll stop 10 year old's thinking their rambo.

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But they are Rambo!... And we'll be Terminator.


I really don't know what to say about the vest, but dear god. What is the world coming to. It can't just be about having fun gaming anymore. We have to actually feel it now.

Well with the increasing violence children are surrounded by now, it's no wonder they think their rambo. I don't know, I think I quite like the idea. I think it'll be a bit tacky if used by the military though.

It's getting weirder and weirder in this world...

There was something like this about 2-3 years ago if not more...
But this will never inflict actual pain on the user just vibrations (like console controller) at most.

Yeah I remember seeing something like this for sale in a games magazine about 11 years ago. Not as sophisticated but just as stupid.

Offtopic...
Terminator will blow up Rambo and then commit suicide.
But, WHAT ABOUT ROBO COP ??
1/2 Human,, 1/2 Robot, he owns them
Their son :O

Ontopic.
It's not the world.
It's just that tiny group of students called the university.
They're posessed by dumb ideas wich they actually try to finish.

i can't wait to hear the vent recordings of nerds wearing pain vest screaming in pain when hackers show up in their games.

Hahaha yeah. That'll bring a whole new level of funniness to gaming with headsets on.

Seen this on some revolutionary tech show at least 2-6 months ago. :P Cool stuff, but I wouldn't get it xD

Haha, looks like when I get my hands on this, I'll be afraid to even wear it lol

I know... It's designed for FPS and etc.... but let's hope Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo don't 'jump onto' this..... Imagine "PAIN" on this :3 course I guess that'd require a full body suit for "Full Effect" but hahahaha~

I'm sure the next thing to be made after this would be some sort of sex emulation gear...

Can't wait to try it out sounds like fun to actually feel it when your person get's hit.

Gamin' becomes reality like this.

Not cool if you ask me.

imo, unless the vest gives you the exact pain of a real bullet, it's not worth buying.

You haven't lived until you've felt a bullet pierce your skin...

If this actually worked this would be awesome lol. And they made a playlist or a game where only people wearing the vest can play (in conjunction with say something like Natal)

It would mean everyone would have to be much more carefull and play it like they would act in paintball or whatever. Unless they love pain.

It would also be awesome killing someone and then knowing you actually hurt someone lol, just like when i go paintballing when i hit someone and cause them to be elimated, it feels good.

I don't see it making it into your regular gaming life but hey it would be nice =)

Ouch, sounds nasty... what if they made a full body suit and someone shot you in the nuts! OO... The pain O.o

meh, it would be fun until you died a couple of times, they you would feel ill from all the pain.

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Originally Posted by Only Me

If this actually worked this would be awesome lol. And they made a playlist or a game where only people wearing the vest can play (in conjunction with say something like Natal)

It would mean everyone would have to be much more carefull and play it like they would act in paintball or whatever. Unless they love pain.

It would also be awesome killing someone and then knowing you actually hurt someone lol, just like when i go paintballing when i hit someone and cause them to be elimated, it feels good.

I don't see it making it into your regular gaming life but hey it would be nice =)

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Having something like "everyone must wear vest" rules (and forcibly having them apply) would make the level of gaming all the more intense. People would try 10x harder in an effort to not be hit. In that sense, this device would be awesome.

Yeah, everyone would try not to get hit, meaning that on cod everyone would just camp, but you would have a better game... more realistic.