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Tomorrow Daily - 'Tesla Suit' hopes to add full-body touch to your VR experience, Ep. 178

2015-05-13
on today's show a robotics company tries to show that drones can be beautiful and the Star Trek replicator has become a reality and it's like a consumer the consumers can get it - so that's weird and also a virtual reality accessory that is kind of like a suit that gives you haptic feedback we're gonna tell you how it works just don't get shot Samar Daly greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in their universe I'm Ashley Skylar Jeremy's always kill anonymous one of the best how's it going one of us it's great yeah it's like we're gonna actually talk this time instead of yesterday we were like sup yeah I like how our small talk today is talking about yesterday how we didn't talk on small talk yep that's right good and that's it let's hit the headlines okay I gotta tell you about this crazy virtual reality accessory this is pretty cool so there's a UK company called Tesla studios no relation to Elon Musk's car and battery company they are making what they call the Tesla suit and I thought at first this is sort of like a Faraday cage like suit where you have the chain males know this is a virtual-reality suit this is a suit designed to give you a full-body haptic feedback experience in a virtual world meaning you put these things on you put these little sensors on these modules and as you're walking around in virtual reality you can not only touch things in virtual world virtual things can touch you so that's a little bit scary that's a little bit awesome a little bit awesome as well it's a scare sighting um and so okay it starts off with the T built so you got this built and there's all these different modules that go on different parts your body the t belt is the main control unit it is wireless it connects to pretty much everything like PC console smartphones VR headsets all that stuff Wow this is these are all the different modules they have so you can see there's two are two modules on each arm two on each leg and then the belt and then the gloves the t glove so the t glove provides haptic feedback for touching things so reaching out touching stuff and you can see how it works is if they also do things like heat they can heat up or cool down so if there's cool air touching you like they'll cool down these like these bands will cool down and it will also do things like track muscle movement temperature posture also machine washable for those of you out there looking for something something convenient you clean it very easily and then the the bands for the arms and legs you can also use for motion capture motion capture systems various points that deliver range of blows and heat so let's say you even grass brush up against your legs and Fable you're in this virtual fable world ok well then you'll feel light kind of haptic feedback well let's say then maybe you go over to Call of Duty and you get shot in the arm you're gonna get a much stronger feedback on that arm so it's gonna like hit you you're gonna feel like you got hit by something just kind of crazy unfortunately each piece will be its own module and each module be sold separately so they're not going to sell it as like one big piece and the first modules will hit the market this year they're saying they want to do it this year crazy no word yet on pricing or specific availability dates or which modules will launch first maybe they will only do the belt and then the other bands will come later or maybe they'll do them all once we don't really know so their websites up and like I said it's like all-or-nothing with this but here's the you know here's somebody using one of the bands and and it does seem to be kind of working and that's the Oh balloons popping okay so like you're gonna kind of feel that as you like pop the balloons and stuff so I thought this was a really fast that is a huge bound by by far I mean you remember that we covered a story where this people made this mask that you can smell in virtual reality we're like this is a future but no this these people are like you're gonna put you inside of it and you're actually gonna feel everything yeah and that's really cool I'll wireless so pretty neat um which brings us to our hashtag of the day which is TD Tesla VR I want to know like are you in on this are you gonna use it I feel like this is something I'm looking at that I feel is really cool but I'm like I don't know if I'd buy that why not well I guess I'd have to see what the games are like in virtual reality first so you're basing it on nothing well I mean I feel like I'm hedging my bets a little bit and that's fair that's a fair assessment I'm ahead you better okay this is an awful lot like ready player one and I keep bringing that up that it's and it was about full and complete immersion and if we're gonna do virtual reality might as well right I mean this isn't gonna make you bleed if you get shot it's not gonna like you're just gonna feel it and it's gonna be I mean if you're going to be doing virtual reality might as well go full immersion that's all I'm saying and this is awesome I hate that it's all separated and then you have to buy a piece by piece when you said it I felt like it was just gonna be one suit when I put it on it was that Lara Croft yes okay then I would know I want this oh come on don't know I thought they're gonna yeah I thought they were you know what I'm gonna do I am going to buy you this for your birthday next year and I'm gonna everything was like two days ago I know that but I'm gonna have it sewn into like a morph suit so you can just put it all on that's what I'm saying it and that's what is it sewn into a suit like yeah just listen guys Tesla studios if you're watching this here's our suggestion do an add-on for a bite like a bodysuit so just so uh in all the things and then like or have like little like pouches on each of the armbands stuff where you can like slide it in and then slide them out and wash them that's my that's my idea you can have that I want it so that's that's the Telus would we wear this thing yeah what are you is this how about what would you want to experience in the Sun and these Tesla vr so hashtag TD Tesla VR yeah would you want experience what's the experience Barcroft done it's already done you're gonna be able to do that you're in go on a date with her we go see a bad movie and we both hate it and the date goes poorly and we break up it's a whole cycle that's a cycle of life don't be sad my even my virtual life sucks no all right the Star Trek replicator so you thought that was so you like future stuff well I got another story for you because this I want to tell you about a little device called the genie okay so the Star Wars replicator can you describe the Star Wars replicator yes Star Trek Star Trek Star you started and it's a little device and it has these like it kind of it's a little bit like the Jetsons and with like you know where you put in this little like pot or you get food anyway Oh meal so this device called the genie is basically that if you think of like the cure eggs that you may have in your house you put a little coffee filtered thing at you and then it shoots the hot water through it well this kind of runs the same exact way you put a pot a pot in as freeze-dried food and then it creates a full meal in like 30 seconds oh yeah so what's great about this app of a great about this device is it works with an app okay so that you can control it from an app and there's a lot of ways that you can kind of tailor it to how you live your life so if you don't like glue if you're like allergic to gluten or dairy or egg free like they'll build it around that and it kind of learns to the point that it will eventually the genie will know your microbiome and will prepare food for you directly that's creepy so that's that's what I like this what's okay there's ramen chocolate souffles there's a lot of stuff that they're developing right now they're preparing for mass production already there's no price or release date yeah but they said it's gonna cost like a couple hundred bucks okay that's not terrible yeah 200 bucks for a Keurig that's not bad at all and yeah they're saying that the the pods that are coming with it will actually be like comparable to an actual meal so the price baguette II will like be comparable in price to you think you know the pot of spaghetti so I guess the only thing we're missing here is how do they taste because it sounds like an amazing idea and I'm totally in on this like I totally want to do this I love this I think this is very Jetsons like the food replicator in Star Trek is like food synthesis it like synthesizes items anyway my question is this like they show in this video from Reuters and that's where we found the story Reuters so Thank You Roy ders they show this video and they show these like plated dishes yeah the thing is is in this in this little pod that's not the case you're not gonna be able to pick out all the things and put it on a plate so it's just gonna be like a pile of mush kind not unlike Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where's like you eat the gob stock or do you eat the gum and it like gives you all the meals but it's just one piece it's like mush but it tastes like that plated thing this is just this is just a fancy way of doing microwave dinners this is really all day it's just tapas just eating up your food in a little bit just putting it in a pod and making it and another thing is this is but I don't know if you've ever heard of MREs the military use these things is ready to eat and basically they have a pouch of food then they put it in a hot water packet for I'd say about five minutes and pull it out and they had their little mushy food that's all this is so this would be a really good thing for like emerging markets I mean if they could keep it cheap like this could be something really cool and also I mean college students let's talk about that like this is something I see in a dorm room yeah I put your little curiosity that's why I think it would be work best as is like people that don't know how to cook and people that don't have a whole lot of time to cook and that's especially why I think it's important that they have the dietary and gluten stuff because if you're busy and on the go a lot of the time you don't you can only eat like fast food and like junk food and don't really have time to eat healthy so ya know I like it for as far as the health benefits so there you go all right but we'll see there's still there mass-producing them we'll see how much it cost if it tastes good so senator I like it try it out I like the genie okay I want to tell you about Dancing with Dancing with drones which is a little short that kind of short film I guess so Cole Mott robotics wanted to show people that drones do not have to necessarily always be associated with surveillance and military use they wanted to show that drones could potentially make something really beautiful and they did that with dancing with drones which this is really cool that's great so this comes from choreographer nina cove and some biological physicists there are seven to ten automated drones they are autonomous drones I'm sorry completely non automated they do not have any pre-programmed routes and what they do is they respond to a human dancer on the ground outdoors so they take these drones outside this guy's dancing and as he's dancing he has a wearable that did that he's wearing that communicates with the drones as they dance which sort of makes him like the leader of the drones and so he's the spinning and stuff and so then all the drones are going around in circles a mate so they made this system that basically tells the drones this guy the data the main person with the wearable on is is one is a drone like they're they consider through the computer that he is a drone like that's what they the drones are set up to believe and so beyond that beyond it just being like sort of the beauty of drones and being able to kind of show off this technology one of the other things they're doing that the physicists are studying multiple drones in the sky and how they interact with each other because they think that at some point there's a very high likelihood that we would have multiple drones in the sky all at once from different parties and they want to make sure that like you know they can study sort of how they move in the sky and relate to each other and kind of send each other data and things like that so I thought that was really cool it's it's a super short story it's not anything like super deep or you know but anything that's like oh this goal is like in the future we're gonna have like drones that are your friends that dancing it no there's no that it's just they wanted to show that drones could also make something very beautiful and artistic and also it doesn't hurt that they get some data about multiple drones up in the sky what do you know it was just some guy that had too many drones well there was really dancing I mean no but it what it was it was cool except for he was a little D got a little too much into it let's say it was your dancer you got a commit and that guy committed he was they kept please yes please send us your a drone interpretive dance so but that's cool that's a cool way to test it that is a largest acquitted festival artistic way to test it also I mean it looks beautiful it's R it's really cool to watch I just really enjoyed it so that's it for our headlines we're gonna be right back with Mod Squad which is kind of like an artistic mod school I don't know I cut it's a stretch this week I'm sorry like I really liked this I don't want to show it off so and then we have of course your user feedback finally about Nintendo and there are theme parks okay um and and then we have of course our photogra for the day so don't click away it's tomorrow daily welcome back to the show we have returned it is a Wednesday which means we like to talk about modifications that people make and and the cool things that come out of them so this is mod squad such a good graphic if you spot the mistake you win a high-five from us uh I gotta tell you about mark Hagan Geary he's better known online as the paper dandy I don't know if you've heard of this no I haven't I love that name delightful the paper dandy he works in an art form called kigurumi I don't know if you ever heard of this which is I'm sure you've seen it online if you are of any if you love looking up really cool stuff Kurumi is cutting out piece one sheet of paper into a beautiful 3d sort of portrait and this guy made his favorite scenes from Star Wars these are made out of single sheets of paper and he cuts out the shapes and then folds them up so that they make this sort of 3d landscape he did all of these scenes on each scene is on one single piece of a4 so it's a little over eight and a half by eleven inches and yeah look at that he cut that out and his only tools are an exacto knife a metal ruler and a cutting mat that's it and so he wants I said I figured this was kind of a mod squad because he's modifying paper I'm like he's mining right yeah yeah so he he back likes them he has these really cool art exhibitions he's been doing this for a very long time like this is sort of his thing and and so what he wants to do right now is cut scene which is the name of his new exhibit this is the start looking Jabba's bar like unbelievable just so freakin cool how great this is and he wants to make this an exhibit that travels around he's looking for funding so of course he's on Kickstarter and as of right now he was pretty close like I want to say he was within a few thousand dollars I'm getting fully funded but I mean God what what an amount of work that went into this I can't believe I mean this guys are so talented it's amazing and yeah he's like I'm not not officially affiliated at all with Lucasfilm I'm not making a profit on this like this is basically the funding is just to take the project out and show it to people and go on a little tour my god that is amazing unreal I can't even think it's time to make a paper airplane that's cuz making Star battles I know he's making Jabez 35 I mean I would love to see those actually I hope he take gets to take it around yeah he's um he's in the UK and I like I'm hoping that maybe he brings them he's able to bring in the states with the yeah the Kickstarter funding so but like I said he's got I think he's got I wanna say last I checked is like three three or four thousand dollars left she's asking for around 25 grand can you see him like board the plane would just like a stack of papers no I never my my art this is my art whoops the mouth yeah amazing so yeah it's just super cool great work paper dandy you are fantastic and we love what you do I just I thought it was amazing I love the video too okay guys we finally are gonna talk about the Nintendo theme park and your thoughts on it it is time now for user feedback so many good ideas like blowing my mind making me crazy I love all of them let's just call up Universal and implement them all immediately Joe wrote in and said hidden coins around the park that can be collected and used the blade classic Nintendo games on an arcade near the food court oh nice boom love that okay you could even do that with like an AR game looks like coins are on the park you'll collect them that would be pretty fun to have an arrogant thing Neal wrote in and said an extreme f0 Racing roller coaster two cars jump sloop SuperSpeed and vomit bags I think you would definitely need that yeah I don't know but I didn't survive on f-zero very often so there's a lot of deaths to the death toll they just put the instead of you must be this tall to ride it's like instead of a million burger served they're just like this is the tips for x0 today's death tolls they keeps going up this encounter Martin wrote and said this is my first tweet but a mix of practical first-time tweet but it makes a practical effects a are to take to Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda see that's cool I like that everybody's using the AR yeah like AR and I love this idea of roller coaster that sort of changes like once a year like the a are changes and like you can so like Legend of Zelda you could do a great Legend of Zelda pass and then a couple years you'd switch it to the new Legend of Zelda game yeah that would be pretty awesome Joseph Thomas wrote in and says Star Fox our winged assault think of the Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster with a VR display and way more barrel and he's gonna say barrel rolls in there so what's that and also I mean instead where you just are good to be a barrel ride and they're like hi starfox and you just like her no barrel roll but I was that got me thinking like you wouldn't even have to build a full roller coaster if it was VR you could just put in like Star Tours you have the simulation you're right just have your VR headset and you look around during the ride and stuff and it would just be you just be in a little simulator yeah or they could go the route of like the Buzz Lightyear ride and you actually have to shoot down enemies and stuff like that and it's fun to pretend and then hear do a barrel roll and it feels like you did a whole barrel roll and you're like shooting oh they'll be so amazing okay and then Justin a lastly wrote in and said a starfox single-seat roller coaster in the cockpit of an arwing that has screens to make you feel like you're in the game yeah I'll have that screen little screens the stuff you they touch everything so yeah really good oh and he said also make it with four different roller coasters weaving between each other so you can have four player co-op great fries good point good point excellent excellent choices guys so you guys really kind of crushed it on this one so great of course we knew that yeah we knew you guys would do it and of course because we're all done with user feedback it's time for our very last piece which is our phone time for the day I can't wait for next week because I've already picked out a couple of the font ography pictures and one of them in particular I'm just so excited for you to see okay this is actually from Ashley so great name Ashley says hi Ashley nice name well thank you after I came home crying from the first day of school and said Ashley was a girl's name mom said boys were spell le why I'm beginning to believe I've been duped you weren't it Ashley I swear it used to be a boy's name it's just we got I'm sorry girls took it over I took this at semaphore Beach Adelaide Australia it's the last commercialized beach before industrial ports and it's set around the northeast corner of the city it has an old-timey low-budget cinema waterslide mini-golf and restaurants I live 20 kilometres away but there's a 90 kilometer per hour expressway going to it from my house took this on an lg g3 I feel as bad about a bridge shot as some people should feel about Instagram filters Cheers ash I like this guy I like yeah I like this is a great picture gorgeous beautiful thanks Mona go I've never been have you been Australia no I'm scared of giant spiders giant spider yeah there's a lot of deadly things in Australia that that aren't pictured in this but they're right behind the camera yes I'm underwater about to come after Ashley yeah no but it's a great photo I like the color filter a little often look I like that you didn't Center that bridge like that's the pier yeah that should redeem it for you Ashley by the way I think when you like once you get older like having Ashley his name is awesome like it's cool it's pretty great like as a kid I'm sure it's like hard because you get made fun out yeah but it's a boy named Sue type of thing but it's like as you get older pretty great like your name a dude like a grown up dude named Sue it really is all I've heard that song but he was angry even until he got I know I know but I'm saying Ashley is a pretty cool name it was a guy's name in Gone with the Wind they made him tough right yeah do you think Ashley's tough yeah well she lives in Australia is still alive guys gotta be tough probably riding a spider right now lassoed on ceman spider he rides it around he takes that that expressway is actually for spiders it's not for cars it's a 90 kilometer an hour spider rest away if you guys want to send in your phone tog Rafi you can always email us we're tomorrow at cnet.com you can also send over other stuff if you want story ideas and whatnot and if you want to find us on social media we are tomorrow daily pretty much everywhere on these look up social that just look up tomorrow daily on YouTube iTunes whatever and don't forget to follow us on our own personal Twitter's at kill a lot of this and add ashley Esqueda that's it for the show today we will be back tomorrow with a brand new talkative weird wonderful exciting 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