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Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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Wow this is so cool. Really makes me feel like I'm living in the future. Not sure that naming it tesla was a good idea though.

right, riding the Tesla keyword is so 2010, they should have gone with MLsuit.io or blockchainSuit.io. Okay it felt good to write, go ahead and downvote me you mofos

Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop violating the site rules?

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

#102
Hah! I built something similar (but very amateur) as my master thesis project: https://procrastinative.ninja/2015/02/19/sensation-suit/

I always wanted to use TENS and EMS but my professors were a bit cautious. Anyway I've learned a lot and it was a really fun project. I still have the suit and have currently lent it to a fellow student who want's to survey if and how it increases VR immersion. Very happy to see another professional go at this! Good luck guys!

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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Hey all, Denis, Teslasuit Marketing Director here. Looking forward to your questions! as for feedback for users - we have it on Youtube - just google it by keyword phrase "Teslasuit VR haptic suit at DevGAMM 2017 Minsk" as for prefix Tesla - we using it due to the fact that we are using current (EMS and TENS) to provide haptic (sense of touch) as for electricity: yes, we are using TENS and EMS to provide haptic sensa…

Looks interesting. Some practical questions: :) • Sizing wise, how're you thinking to handle different sized people. For example, I'm about 155cm (just over "5 foot" in imperial). That's fairly short compared to many North Americans. • Power and signal transport. On the YouTube video there seems to be a back attachment with a WiFi logo. Does that mean the suit itself will be untethered (battery powered)? • If it's un…

Sizing: we are creating different sizes from XS to XXL Power and signal transport: Teslasuit fully untethered. Signal transmitting via Wi-FI. Battery is enough for 3-4 days of gaming (approx. 25-32 hours) SDK: not now, but we are thinking in this direction.

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42574569 - newest video about Teslasuit from BBC :)

You seem to be affiliated with them. My advice would be to demo asap and as much a possible. I am sure it is hard with a suit like that, but it's the only way people aren't gonna think it is vaperware.

have a look, here is a lot of feedback after the demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5bOsUFb-4

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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Looks interesting. Some practical questions: :) • Sizing wise, how're you thinking to handle different sized people. For example, I'm about 155cm (just over "5 foot" in imperial). That's fairly short compared to many North Americans. • Power and signal transport. On the YouTube video there seems to be a back attachment with a WiFi logo. Does that mean the suit itself will be untethered (battery powered)? • If it's un…

Sizing: we are creating different sizes from XS to XXL Power and signal transport: Teslasuit fully untethered. Signal transmitting via Wi-FI. Battery is enough for 3-4 days of gaming (approx. 25-32 hours) SDK: not now, but we are thinking in this direction.

Thanks. Hopefully for the arms at least, the sensors can be some moved around.

Even with "standard" sizes like that, I always need to get clothes tailored as the arms and legs are still too long. :)

Open Sourcing drivers/SDK wise: If you need someone to bounce ideas off of or just discuss things, you're welcome to ping me (justin@postgresql.org). Happy to sign reasonable NDA (etc) if needed.

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

#108
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Its already a pain in the ass to put on and set up the Vive...who's going to want to jump into a wet suit just to play video games?

I know I definitely want to try this. I don't think I would ever buy one to have in my home, but it really would be cool to and fun to try.

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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same here, i am very suspicious

we are using the same approach as that https://hpi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachgebiete/baudisch/pr...

Thanks for replying, very interesting and best of luck!

Re: Teslasuit – full body haptic VR suit

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gloves planned to be built within 4 months

This is a solved problem you can buy right now and get an actual product. https://neuronmocap.com/ No chest bouncing sensors though, unfortunately...

That did look interesting. eg:

https://neuronmocap.com/content/product/perception-neuron-li...

But, pretty much Windows only. :(

They do have one demo + their data reading SDK also working on OSX. Not really sure if that should be considered real OSX support though:

https://neuronmocap.com/downloads

Reading the license in the SDK, it's 100% proprietary. My interest completely died at that point.

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