Thread: Virtual reality
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Old 03-12-2004, 12:00 PM  
unconnected
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VR is mostly used by for medical stuff now, it is too expensive for the masses..

a good VR helmet will run you back close to 10k, top of the line(the ones they use in the apache helicopters) go way beyond that.
but the fucked up shit is the tactile stuff.. The gloves with the exoskeleton to simulate hard objects, and tactile simulators can run you back up to 55k per glove..

and then you need something to do with all this fun stuff, which there sure as hell isn't much, so you really end up wasting your money as there aren't really large amount of simulations or games made for this kind of equipment
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