If you opt for the lower cost ‘Pioneer’ version (starting at £1199), the full suit will deliver up to 30 channels of feedback, with the top-flight ‘Prodigy’ tier (£2099) offering up to 52 channels. To that end, there are two ‘tiers’ of Teslasuit sporting different levels of granularity in terms of body location for effects. So, how much will this cutting-edge jumpsuit cost you? As ever with these things, you get what you pay for. The central processing unit apparently connects wirelessly to your PC – we’re trying to find precise details on how this works. This central unit is then aided by bolt-on co-processors for Motion, Climate control and Haptics, check the link above for more a closer look at those units. The suit is ‘powered’ via a central unit (the T-Belt). See Also: ‘Teslasuit’ is a Tactile Skin that Lets You Feel VR, Kickstarter Jan 1st 'Among Us VR' Coming to Quest 2 & PC VR November 10th The textiles used in the suit are woven with conductive thread, layers with waterproof neoprene which, somewhat amazingly, makes the suit itself water proof and fully washable. Not only that, the suit can apparently simulate climate changes in the VR environment, warning the wearer to a claimed 30 degrees. They claim the suit is capable of producing feedback spanning everything from full body hugs, to the impact of bullets and explosions (albeit hopefully not quite as painful or life threatening). The Tesla Studios folks claim to have taken this base tech and enhanced it for use in virtual reality applications. You may already be familiar with the technology if ever you’ve had athletic therapy or indeed used a TENS machine for pain relief. The Teslasuit uses neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), to transmit sensations directly to the wearers body via electric pulses. We told you yesterday that UK based Tesla Studios were approaching the end of a 3 year R&D cycle and preparing to launch their ‘revolutionary’ haptic full-body suit via the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform. The ‘smart textiles’ used in Teslasuit is capable of transferring feedback from a virtual world through the use of electrical pulses direct to the skin. “This Kickstarter will provide the entire collection in a special exclusive package, but the updated versions of the games will also make their way to digital download services, starting with GOG.com, as automatic updates.”Ĭyan also added that while it doesn’t have the capacity to release updated Mac versions at this time, the studio hopes to “continue to work to update or rebuild some of the Mac titles, and explore other options to try to make more of the games playable again on the Mac in the future.Teslasuit, the full body haptic ‘skin’ which uses an ‘electro-tactile’ feedback system to give the wearer sensations of touch, force and even warmth, has now hit Kickstarter but, perhaps predictably, it ain’t cheap! If you just want digital copies of the games, the pricing comes to $49 for Windows 10 versions of the seven titles: Myst: Masterpiece, Riven, Myst 3: Exile, Myst 4: Revelation, Myst 5: End of Ages, Uru: Complete Chronicles, and realMyst: Masterpiece Edition. That package will run you $100, but there’s also a $169 tier that incorporates an LCD screen and speaker into the book. The company is also assembling something special for fans: a limited-run, Kickstarter-only physical edition with a 1:1 replica Linking Book. As we recently learned, Cyan is celebrating Myst‘s 25th anniversary with new versions of every Myst game that are compatible with modern PCs.
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