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Sense of touch!!
I think sense of touch can really help with immersion. I have had this idea of either a glove or an aperture to attach to the flat side of your hand opposite the thumb (where you would karate chop) ...
That is a good idea. A great idea.
The airbag is a good idea, but hard none the less. Could you do something for the whole hand like as such:
Three ideas:
You could go the way of a glove, which is a good idea, and have hundreds of electrodes on the inside. That emit like a slight electric shock, then when you grab something in game, it feels like a tingle in your hand. Not like real tactile feel, but would be easy and cheap to do. Could be precise also.
You could have a glove that has a similar vibrator to a phone in it, only dulled down, and have multiple vibrating points, and when you touch something in game it activates these, but again, that's not too real.
OR, you could try and find something that contracts when electricity is applied (like a muscle), and put this on the glove, but that would be hard. This is similar to your airbag idea, anyone have suggestions for something like this?
The airbag is a good idea, but hard none the less. Could you do something for the whole hand like as such:
Three ideas:
You could go the way of a glove, which is a good idea, and have hundreds of electrodes on the inside. That emit like a slight electric shock, then when you grab something in game, it feels like a tingle in your hand. Not like real tactile feel, but would be easy and cheap to do. Could be precise also.
You could have a glove that has a similar vibrator to a phone in it, only dulled down, and have multiple vibrating points, and when you touch something in game it activates these, but again, that's not too real.
OR, you could try and find something that contracts when electricity is applied (like a muscle), and put this on the glove, but that would be hard. This is similar to your airbag idea, anyone have suggestions for something like this?