To continue with their new gaming accessorizes line to "immerse players" TN games has created the HTX Helmet designed to let you feel your virtual headshots in real life
"The HTX Helmet is worn in conjunction with the 3rd Space Gaming Vest and delivers blows to the head when you are fired upon. Feel bullets whizzing by your helmet or the impact of getting shot in the head. The helmet will communicates with compatible games to give precise, 3 dimensionally accurate impacts where it happens, as it happens"
Last year they came out with a vest that simulated being hit with ten pounds of pressure, straight to your gut.
I personally don't have any interest in any of these, but the helmet would at least have some practical use, possibly in the FPS genre. If you could feel what direction the bullets were coming from, combined with a good surround system, it might give you a slight edge in competition, I guess?
Unfortunately, it can't help you from looking like a total twat while using it. I'll say this is only for the rich and bored.
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"Sarge! I'm feeling bullets penetrate my skull from the south!"
That's immersion!
Great idea, but, honestly, if I saw anyone wearing this is their home, or saw them in possesion of it, they'd get a punch in the dick.
Pendelton wins.
Ahh yes, good ol TN Games - they are good people
It does seem a little... excessive.
If I want to feel like I've just been pummeled by a claymore mine, I'll go over to the Middle East and play in a field.
Why not just go to real war?
I wonder what games are actually compatable with this piece of pointless crap? (Bet anyone my copies of Gitaroo Man and Gitaroo Man Lives that its Crysis.)
Makes me think of the final battle in "Balls of fury"
The crap some people will sell...
So you can get brain damage in real time? Sign me up!
I saw these about a year ago, reminds me of those old force feedback plastic vests they used to make back in the snes days. I got one for christmas, it was nothing more than a subwoofer attached to your back. I admit it was kind of cool, but the novelty wears off quick.
But wait how does anyone working there knows what it feels like to get shot in the head?