As Real As It Gets: here’s an exoskeleton suit for your gaming needs

The Oculus Rift may give us heart-stopping renders of truly believable environments , but aren’t our other senses being underserved by the expensive peripherals industry? As Real As It Gets thinks so: their gently undulating bodysuit aims to let gamers feel the rumble of a passing vehicle, or the pummel of an assault rifle’s bullet-spray into one’s chest.

ARAIG have just started a Kickstarter campaign for the sense-replicating suit, and they’re hoping to raise some $900,000 to put it into mass production. Of course, there’s no way to tell how well this will work without strapping on a suit ourselves, so let’s hope that is at least a little more subtle than the unpleasant vibrations on some handheld controllers.