Full-Body "Teslasuit" Allows You to Feel VR Games Using Haptic Feedback

Yuli Ban · Jan 14, 2018

Full-body Teslasuit allows you to feel VR games using haptic feedback

Virtual reality is a feast for the eyes and ears, but what about the rest of your body? Companies are experimenting with ways to incorporate touch into VR experiences, and while products like the Sense Glove are cool, the Teslasuit is an effort to more fully immerse people in virtual environments by providing (almost) every inch of your body with haptic feedback. At CES 2018, Digital Trends talked to Teslasuit CEO Dimitri Mikhalchuk about the suit’s progress.
The suit uses an “electro-tactile haptic feedback system” to really put you inside the games you’re playing. “It covers the entire body. Currently we have 68 channels, we’re going to expand to even more by the time we hit the consumer level,” Mikhalchuk said. “It provides the sensations, anything from stroke to hard impact … but the hard impact we’ve specifically limited to the own wearer’s strength, not to damage any tissue or anything, to keep it safe.”
The Teslasuit has started shipping out developer kits for game designers (since VR equipment lives or dies based on the software available), and hopes to have consumer models available in 2019. Full-body haptic feedback is one of the missing links between virtual reality as we know it today and a completely immersive “holodeck” experience, so we doubt the company will have trouble finding VR pioneers willing to pony up the cash.
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shiningHatsya · Jan 14, 2018

I am guilty of seeing suit customizations out of this one. Like I'd like mine have blue-yellow coloring, and give my girlfriend an Asuna-themed Teslasuit.

Yuli Ban · Jan 14, 2018

How fitting that a Russian guy's behind this.

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