Hello everybody,

We are a group of students doing a project to enhance gaming experience and we would like to have some feedback from the gaming comunity. The devices we are planning to devolp are the following:

1. Wrist band controller: This is a simple, easy to wear device consisting on a wrist band with integrated (really small) cameras that can keep track of your forearm muscle movements and translate them into a finger/hand movent pattern (a mapping between forearm muscle movents and finger/hand movements). It wirelessly connects to a gaming console/pc and using accelerometers/gyroscopes can track the hand/arm position in a 3D space.

Suppose this is more accurate than Natal. The point of such a divece is to provide a more natural way to play your games, without beeing restricted to the game controller area (for ex. you can move your fingers to pull a trigger of a gun, move your hand to reach and throw a granade, make stabing moves while using a knife, etc...).

2. A special set of clothes with integrated electrical muscule stimulators positioned in particular areas of the body to stimulate specific groups of muscules in your body. The idea behind this is to make your body "feel" for example, fire weapon hits in a first person shooter gama (such as Call of Duty), punches in a fighting game, etc.

So, to all the gamers out there, please help us to improve our idea.

Regards,

The most important thing for a new interface is software. It can be technically brilliant but no one will think so unless you have cool and fun software to use it with. The pioneer of new interfaces, Nintendo, is set up in that way so they always have software for new hardware (Analogue stick -> SM64, Wii -> Wii Sports.

I've always wanted clothes that do that ^.^

I think what you need to do is find a way for those clothes to be washable though....a lot of guys are gonna get someone sweaty during intense moments of online gaming or spill some soda on them on accident or something and once it starts smelling then....uh oh.

Too ambitious, but it would be extremely cool if it worked.

And I would love the body suit to have lots of sharp needles.