{"id":360,"date":"2007-11-01T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/cheap-impact-generating-device\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:02:53","slug":"cheap-impact-generating-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/cheap-impact-generating-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap &#8220;impact-generating&#8221; device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/images\/tn_vest_black.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngames.com\/products.php\">3rdSpace\u00c2\u00ae Vest<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngames.com\">TN Games<\/a> allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game.<br \/>\nIt works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like &#8220;3 year old punching you&#8221; (words from a tester in the video below).<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngames.com\/tngames_sdk.pdf\">sdk documentation<\/a> looks like it&#8217;s really easy to program. You can choose between multiple effects (different guns, explosions, stab, acceleration, deceleration) for the 8 actuators :<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/images\/tn_vest_sdk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of actuators and their power doesn&#8217;t seem that impressive, but I&#8217;m sure that if used well this could improve immersion, as in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/laval-virtual-2007\/\">Verdun<\/a> application.<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=zZzxmCoOci8[\/youtube]\n[youtube]http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=V45_kYZoHAo[\/youtube]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rdSpace\u00c2\u00ae Vest from TN Games allows you to feel impacts of bullets and punches inside the game. It works with air micro-compressors that generate impacts like &#8220;3 year old punching you&#8221; (words from a tester in the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[181,107,239,182,100,465,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}