Gadgetory

it kind of does feel a little bit like I'm squelch against the mud and a puddle this is the most ridiculous thing you'll see all day actually wait it's supposed to be these VR shoes they're called tack limb and while they're a prototype these are going to be available as a full product coming autumn 2017 so what they are are VR shoes and gloves that give you haptic feedback they run off a unity plug-in that lets developers create content freely so it's open source and all the vibration data is made available the shoes have eight tactile motors inside to simulate a bunch of different fields like grass water and desert were some of the examples that I tried the gloves have a nine axis sensor inside and can capture movement and translate that to a haptic output the shoes have around two hours of battery life in them but what does it actually feel like to use VR shoes I tried them with the demo game that they had available and went through a couple of the simulations and while many of the surfaces didn't feel like they would in real life I have to say the water one felt pretty accurate it did feel like I was splashing around in a puddle of mud it was a lot of fun and these are still living prototypes so I can't wait to see what developers do with them when they come out to final release and they're a full product