Ive been putting together a game system unique to anything before, a full body controller with its own games and system. the suit detects every joint and body movement, and you play on a pad that reads those movements and uses rollers to move a lining that you stand on to keep you from moving. please note however that it only goes as fast as you can run/walk, or you may get a special board that when you lean into a direction it moves that way in the game without you having to do much of anything. im trying to figure out what systems it should be adaptable to, or make my own system and make my own games. start up a commpany and such, but i'd need funding to start. By the way the name of the suit and such is still trying to be decided. tell me if you think its impossible, if it is. you're going to help me make it possible. so please share your ideas

Possiable, but it will probably cost a few billion dollars to produce. Dont expect to find an investment without a solid prototype and company firstoff.

Second, why not build a PC style USB controller out of this instead. It will still be insanely expensive, but less so, and more opertunities for sale and presentation. You will be able to concentrate on the controller without having to invest in the overhead of developing a oonsole or as hard of a time finding investors. Look at how physx did their thing for instance.

Richard

Better come up with a few million first though... BEFORE investors

Oh, and just by having a username with the name hitler in it, you just ostricized about 9/10 of your potential investors... are you old enough to secure funding? or just that ignorant?

I don't think it's impossible. However it's most likely infeasible to be able to make money of it.

My impression of the technology involved from your description is that it will be:

• extremely expensive
  
• take up a large amount of space
  
• hard to make a "one-size-fits-all" version of that suit

It sounds far too bulky and expensive for home use, and the nature of a full body suit means it'd be impractical for use in an arcade. You'd also need your own dedicated software to run with this system.

In short, it's sounds like an insanely expensive luxury item that no-one would buy. I'd go back to the drawing board.

Also remember that you need to be wary of patents, or companies will let you get rich and then sue you. You'll then be broke and lose all credibility for future endeavors.

The US Military might be the only ones who would have a use and be able to afford this type of technology in the near future (near future = your lifetime).

There's some talk about the future of gaming being all VR suits and nano-bots in our bloodstream.

I personally find any game system that limits my capability to act in the real-world unpleasant.
Consoles such as the Wii manage to be unique without trapping players in the virtual world.

You have to be able to stop playing at a moments notice, and unstrapping a full-body VR suit is definitely annoying, not to mention the safety hazards.

Also, imagine playing a horror game, and you wet the suit.

Why on earth would you need a full suit to detect joint movements? A single position-detector at each joint would allow pretty much the same detection capabilities, at a fraction of the cost and inconvenience.

They could be as complex as a full inertial-tracker at each joint, or as simple as an infra-red LED at each joint, which could be motion-tracked by a WiiMote-like webcam.

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Original post by PaulCesar Oh, and just by having a username with the name hitler in it, you just [alienated] about 9/10 of your potential investors... are you old enough to secure funding? or just that ignorant?

An excellent question. I was wondering that myself.

And yes, the SP was correct that the OP's "system" would be prohibitively expensive. Definitely not a mass-market item.

I can see detectors as strap on devices for each joint used that work similarly to the wii detection system. Thats about as far as I think that idea can feasible go. Keep in mind also that any pad that you stand on takes an incredible amount of punishment. DDR pads have been around a long time, been made by a lot of companies, and the good ones at well over a hundred dollars and will eventually break, and the cheap ones are 20 bucks and break in a couple months. Your pad ideas is magnitudes more complex and will therefore have those same problems magnitudes more extreme.