Move over cinematic gaming! We’ve just entered a new era as far as videogame realism goes. Sure, it’s ironic that the world of videogames was intended as a way to escape reality, even as developers strive to bring more realism into our games, but hey, we don’t seem to mind! And in any case, it looks like we have the perfect solution to that one little console-hating partypooper that keeps saying “… But I can’t FEEL the game!”

In a markedly close step towards total immersion in the virtual world, a US surgeon working on “tele-health” has just made a giant leap insofar as force feedback is concerned. Meet the 3rd Space ForceWear vest. Designed by Dr. Mark Ombrellaro, the vest uses air pressure and force feedback to deliver highly accurate thumps to the player’s torsos whenever they get hit in a game. And the deal is that this little vest is highly accurate, mimicking bullet hits, RPG blasts, full body slams, melee contact, you name it, with great precision on your fragile, pudgy gamer body.

Showing off the device at the E4All expo, Ombrellaro’s company TN Games, said that they were even coming out with a vest that mimics G-forces and turning pressures for racing and flight sim games, so the next time you take a hair-raising turn at 190 MPH in Need For Speed: ProStreet or blast into a nosedive with afterburners screaming in Ace Combat 6, you’ll actually feel it!

The 3rd Space vest is priced at $189 and will be made available next month with full support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, in addition to shipping with a custom-made title. As for me, I’ll just have someone whack me on the head with a mallet every time my head explodes like a watermelon in Gears of War as I wait for the next best thing - a full body tactile feedback suit and a complimentary copy of VirtuallyJenna 2: Feel The LUV!

[via Yahoo]

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