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brettorious
Participant
January 29, 2014

VR suit

ok one of you geniuses needs to make this and my life will be complete. we need somthing like the hal robot suit, but with exo skelington for fingers and feet also, and that need to be attatched to a hydraulic lifting anm which can move you on all axises and rotate 360 on all axises
here is a link to what im talking about (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ysb-Oko3Bg)

i have also attatched a schematic (lol) please geniuses build it, it would be so amazing.

    31 replies

    Antzy
    Participant
    February 17, 2014
    That might take some time. Be happy with oculus rift for now :P
    EarlGrey
    Up and Coming
    February 17, 2014
    Well, that drawing is rather awful :roll: :lol:

    Not sure people are willing to get into some sorts of a space suit in order to experience VR, at least not in ordinary casual setting in homes.

    At most people might be willing to put on thin gloves that track the hands and finger movement allowing for world interaction.

    But surely, a robotic skeleton suit does show promise with regards of providing resistance. E.g. the suit skeleton providing resistance, so if you're attempting to lift an object in the VR then the suit might provide for the necessary resistance weight to simulate that.
    runnin2004
    New Participant
    February 21, 2014
    What do you think of this setup with the rift? Motion capture suit and the rift.

    Daniel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtMfrkRqlRs
    saviornt
    Up and Coming
    March 8, 2014
    I know what the OP was asking about, and they have those already. For the Xsens suits - Request a quote. Which means, they are way out of my price range. A more affordable alternative would be the PrioVR suit. Not totally wireless, but much more budget friendly to us indies.

    I've seen what the OP is talking about in YT videos, namely coming out of Japan gaming convention / conferences. It looks like a huge gyro, with the player inside of it.
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    DieKatzchen
    Up and Coming
    March 10, 2014
    I don't suppose you could link some of these YT videos? I am interested in this gyro solution from the East.
    Palmer on the openness of the Rift: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/cgc06b2?context=3 All of Palmer's Reddit posts: http://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey
    saviornt
    Up and Coming
    March 10, 2014
    If I can remember the name of a few, yea

    edit: Found something similar here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZHi8ruXas

    The ones I remember had the user with either basically a TV or a huge !@# headset on and VR gloves (these are old expo's, early 90's?) Perhaps if Palmer reads this he can chime in on it and whether or not I'm crazy or not :|
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    brettoriousAuthor
    Participant
    March 12, 2014
    :O my drawing was excellent how dare you lol. thanks for the reply's guys, some interesting things for me to read up on. one day i shall have my exoskeleton!
    reBoot185
    Up and Coming
    March 24, 2014
    neoprene+all those old haptic cellphones you kept because why should we throw them away? they're good enough for 911.. they're good enough to network as output "dualshock" devices.. some now are good enough for positional tracking.


    neoprene is a personal preference based on wearing my 12pound vest version of something like this(http://soccer.epicsports.com/prod/62755/everlast-evergrip-weighted-training-vest.html).

    instead of iron sand, you would sew in the networked phones. sorry.., i only see how to do it.. i don't intend to do it for a while.

    if using http://www.ebay.com/itm/3200mAh-External-Backup-Battery-Charger-Case-For-Samsung-Galaxy-S4-S3-i-phone-4s-/161259051637?pt=US_Cell_Phone_PDA_Batteries&var=&hash=item258bc9da75 on some of the phones, they could possibly power the oculus rift, too.
    MrMonkeybat
    Up and Coming
    March 29, 2014
    So basically you want what they had in the film Lawn Mower Man.

    Maybe you could reprogram one of those exoskeletons the US ARMY is working on and sell it back to them as a simulator.
    itstoxin
    New Participant
    April 2, 2014
    Instead of a full suit, you could make gloves with movement sensors, so the hands within the game would move as you are.
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