New accessory for FPS gamers.

http://www.firebox.com/product/2075

Amazing :static:

I always thought that not feeling an m82 blow apart my chest on Call of Duty 4 was quite a good feature, maybe its just me that doesn't want to feel like they are actually being shot.

useless unless someone writes a mirc plugin to torture idiots over irc

This would be awesome in LFS!

Can this simulate impact from BFG-9000 and Redeemer too?

Why would I want more lame gimmicks in my FPS games as no first person shooter in the horizon (bar ARMA2 which will probably just laugh at my PC and uninstall itself) looks remotely realistic?

Perhaps Blackfoot Studios could finally resurrect the somewhat realistic first person shooter genre, but they'll probably end up sucking the money dick and going the Halo/COD way.

Or bankruptcy.

Yeah, that is really a bit gimmicky. It *could* be useful however if it covered more of your body and you were playing a game in which getting hit in different parts of your body produced different effects.

This is much better: http://www.firebox.com/product/2029 Affordable stereo-image VR glasses are something I've been waiting for for years. Agreed, I'd hesitate to apply the word 'affordable' to them but it's a step in the right direction.

Hm, would be interesting to torture someone on chats, as someone pointed out, but I prefer to wait for some sort of mechanical punch-thingy for LFS...

Quote from spankmeyer :

Perhaps Blackfoot Studios could finally resurrect the somewhat realistic first person shooter genre, but they'll probably end up sucking the money dick and going the Halo/COD way.

Are you talking about that "Ground Branch" title?

imagine someone actually died from this thing.......:P

Maybe there are mods to it for experiencing laser burns with real lasers included

Quote from Crashgate3 :

This is much better: http://www.firebox.com/product/2029 Affordable stereo-image VR glasses are something I've been waiting for for years. Agreed, I'd hesitate to apply the word 'affordable' to them but it's a step in the right direction.

I was looking at this type of thing last year. But every review i found basically said they're crap. Really low resolution making everything look really pixalated (spelling ?) and the motion tracking wasn't up to the job. And also the fact that you've got these things on means you can't see your controllers, meaning you have to do everything by touch. Might not be such a problem for driving, but i really wanted them for flightsim, and trying to find the keyboard and the right keys when you're essentially blind would become a tad irritating after a while. And they havn't really been that popular, so there must be a reason for that.

If you are thinking of getting one, then i really do recommend you do your research, they're not cheap by any means, and i don't think they do what they say on the tin. If i were you i'd hold on for a few years and wait till the technology catches up with the concept.

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@Nitro...That jacket thing is £150 !!!, Give me a tenner and i'll come over there and hit you with a hammer, if you want.