Feel Game Pain?

LexCorp · 10-22-2007, 03:36 AM

http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yah...e-blows/534921

Just though it was a good read.

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US surgeon working on a "tele-health" breakthrough has devised a way for video game warriors to feel shots, stabs, slams, and hits dealt to their on-screen characters.

A vest designed by doctor Mark Ombrellaro uses air pressure and feedback from computer games to deliver pneumatic thumps to the spots on players' torsos where they would have been struck were they actually on the battlefields.

The "3rd Space" vest will make its US debut in November at a price of 189 dollars. It will be launched with the first-person shooter game "Call of Duty" and a custom-made title.

"It was originally designed as a medical device," Ombrellaro told AFP while letting gamers try the vest at the E for All video game exposition in Los Angeles.

"To give medical exams via the Internet to prisoners, the elderly, those in rural communities and other isolated people."
The medical version of the vest is more sophisticated, enabling doctors sitting at their computers to prod, poke and press patients' bodies from afar and get feedback on what they are virtually feeling, according to Ombrellaro.

That model is pending approval by the US Food and Drug Administration, which wants to be assured that diagnosis made using the vests are reliable.

"You can teleconference with patients but you are missing the hands-on," the vascular surgeon said. "Being able to do that is the last step to tele-health."

A 3rd Space vest that mimics the feeling of G-forces and turning pressures for flight and car games is to be launched early next year, after Ombrellaro's company TN Games finds exciting titles to match it with.

TN Games is based in technology giant Microsoft's home town of Redmond, Washington.

"We've had some Microsoft people check it out," Ombrellaro said.

JTStarkiller · 10-22-2007, 06:28 AM

Can't wait to try that out with this game...

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

LexCorp · 10-22-2007, 07:06 AM

What the hell is that?

Spidey17 · 10-22-2007, 08:30 AM

Imagine that. I would stop playing games, cuz otherwise everytime a Helghast or Nazi threw a grenade at me I would turn off my PS3.

LexCorp · 10-22-2007, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Spidey17

Imagine that. I would stop playing games, cuz otherwise everytime a Helghast or Nazi threw a grenade at me I would turn off my PS3.

Indeed it would give multiplayer games a new edge too

terry78 · 10-22-2007, 10:51 AM

That would either make you want to play more, or play less, depending on your threshold for pain. I wouldn't do that **** online though...too many a-holes tend to just go nuts with their weapons in deathmatch games.

LexCorp · 10-22-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by terry78

That would either make you want to play more, or play less, depending on your threshold for pain. I wouldn't do that **** online though...too many a-holes tend to just go nuts with their weapons in deathmatch games.

Yeah for real...pain overload.

WhatsHisFace · 10-22-2007, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Spidey17

Imagine that. I would stop playing games, cuz otherwise everytime a Helghast or Nazi threw a grenade at me I would turn off my PS3.

You should want to turn off your PS3 permanently just for having a game with Helghast in it.

Wolfwood · 10-22-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by terry78

That would either make you want to play more, or play less, depending on your threshold for pain. I wouldn't do that **** online though...too many a-holes tend to just go nuts with their weapons in deathmatch games.

Not too mention tea bagging, I don't want to feel someone humping my chest.

Jerry! · 10-22-2007, 08:04 PM

ProjectPat2280 · 10-22-2007, 08:16 PM

I think its kind of cool in theory. I mean down the road if this technology takes off it could add a new dimension to games like CoD and Rainbow Six. You possibly wouldnt have as much run and gunnin for the fear of the physical impact your actions coud cause. Kind of like paintball, i mean gettin hit wont kill ya but it doesnt feel all that great, therfor it makes ppl play a little smarter.

StrainedEyes · 10-22-2007, 08:21 PM

It's not like it's going to be painful.. They wouldn't sell it if it was. It'll just feel like getting poked.

ProjectPat2280 · 10-22-2007, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Geo7877

It's not like it's going to be painful.. They wouldn't sell it if it was. It'll just feel like getting poked.

Some ppl dont like to be poked.

The Evolutionist · 10-22-2007, 10:56 PM

Dude, no. The reason I play video games instead of going and getting shot is because I DON'T WANT TO GET SHOT.

LexCorp · 10-23-2007, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ProjectPat2280

I think its kind of cool in theory. I mean down the road if this technology takes off it could add a new dimension to games like CoD and Rainbow Six. You possibly wouldnt have as much run and gunnin for the fear of the physical impact your actions coud cause. Kind of like paintball, i mean gettin hit wont kill ya but it doesnt feel all that great, therfor it makes ppl play a little smarter.

A step towards holodecks....

Spidey17 · 10-24-2007, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by WhatsHisFace

You should want to turn off your PS3 permanently just for having a game with Helghast in it.

Dude, seriously, SHUT UP. Do you get payed under the table by J Allard or what? Imagine playing RE5. Gamers can finally know how it feels to be eaten alive, without actually getting touched.

LexCorp · 10-24-2007, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Spidey17

Dude, seriously, SHUT UP. Do you get payed under the table by J Allard or what? Imagine playing RE5. Gamers can finally know how it feels to be eaten alive, without actually getting touched.

lol

I doubt it would be that intense but close enough to feel a poke or two in the neck.

Spidey17 · 10-24-2007, 01:23 PM

Maybe you'd get hickies from it. Try explaining THAT to your girlfriend.

LexCorp · 10-25-2007, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Spidey17

Maybe you'd get hickies from it. Try explaining THAT to your girlfriend.

Zombie hickey!

10-22-2007, 06:28 AM	#2
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10-22-2007, 07:06 AM	#3
LexCorp Lex Luthor Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Earth (England-USA) Posts: 18,404	Re: Feel Game Pain? What the hell is that?

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10-22-2007, 10:51 AM	#6
terry78 I'm laughing internally Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Northwest Indiana Posts: 53,765	Re: Feel Game Pain? That would either make you want to play more, or play less, depending on your threshold for pain. I wouldn't do that ** online though...too many a-holes tend to just go nuts with their weapons in deathmatch games. __________________ It's better to be seen than viewed. ----------- Who the ** makes a movie and while planning it is like, "you know what this needs...is some Greg Kinnear."

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10-22-2007, 08:16 PM	#11
ProjectPat2280 SELLING...PERFECTION Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: College Posts: 22,596	Re: Feel Game Pain? I think its kind of cool in theory. I mean down the road if this technology takes off it could add a new dimension to games like CoD and Rainbow Six. You possibly wouldnt have as much run and gunnin for the fear of the physical impact your actions coud cause. Kind of like paintball, i mean gettin hit wont kill ya but it doesnt feel all that great, therfor it makes ppl play a little smarter. __________________ Lewis Hamilton 2013 F1 Season Stats: Team: Mercedes Poles: 1 Podiums: 2 Best Finish: 3rd Points: 50 Standing: 4th

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StrainedEyes All the way up it! Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: WA Posts: 15,095	Re: Feel Game Pain? It's not like it's going to be painful.. They wouldn't sell it if it was. It'll just feel like getting poked. __________________ Top of the world, all that's around you is beneath me Me learnin' from your mistakes is the only way you can teach me.

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