Hey hey, I feel really out of place here because all of you are professionals and stuff and all I can do is make websites, but I've been thinking over this idea even before oculus, Let me explain to you the game before what I need.
You've seen it all before, The forest, Rust, Day Z, but imagine, a fully functional game where you are dumped on a island, and your objective is to get off, traditional survival game.. But, with 3D virtual reality and a suit which allows you to feel what your game character feels, let's say, your running against grass, you can feel the grass on your legs, I know it can be done. Or your wading through water and you can feel the coolness Against your body, and when you next to a fire, so on, so on. The game can't have shitty graphics, like day Z/rust, It needs to be crisp and defined.
Obviously, Myself personally would not be able to fund this alone, If we get the funds on kikstarter we can release a demo, which means, unfortunately, people working would not be able to be paid until the kik starter sum is complete.
Anybody willing to try and help towards this project please reply below and any professional members with skill in areas I have mentioned please PM or reply, Thank you LegitReality
I think this bit is probably the most crucial part to address.
You're going to need a lot of development to create a suit in which "your running against grass, you can feel the grass on your legs... wading through water and you can feel the coolness Against your body... when you next to a fire, so on, so on"
Where would you start and what do you think would be involved in building such a prototype (cost, technologies involved etc.)?
Make your prototype about just one limb, and when you perfect that, expand. It sounds like a nice idea. What sort of feedback system are you proposing? Sound? Or some type of mechanical device...I hope your not thinking about vibration motors, although I don't mind them, it seems like people are 'trying' to get away from them. I personally would like to see a suit made of thousands of tiny vibration transducers, that all kick out sound vibrations that can be "shaped", for grass, or any other effects, but...hot, cold, and things like I don't know...that might be over-kill, the brain ODES fill in 'some' blanks if you suspension of disbelief is high enough, or if you are 'tricking' the brain through another mechanism.
