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Ultimate gaming experience or pain in the neck?

by Vladimir Cole on Oct 16th 2006 11:20AM

We doubt this is a legit product, though The Daily Mail claims the abomination comes from Toshiba and allows "the wearer to experience a full 360-degree view on a 40 centimetre dome-shaped screen."

Bollocks!

Funny, regardless of authenticity, however.

[Thanks, jayntampa]

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Tags: PC, ridiculous, virtual reality, vr

Reader Comments (45)

Why is she playing in front of a (rather nice looking) screen if she's wearing that thing?

Oh, that and many more questions.

How does she breathe?

Won't it fog up inside?

Why use a TINY model that only accentuates the size of the beastly thing?

I'm pretty sure it's fake.

But it's still funny.

Looks like Canti from FLCL.

--Branewalker

Newflash: After reports from IGN that labeled the PS3 controller the "worst next-gen controller" surfaced on the Internets, Sony was forced to go back to the drawing board yet again..."

holy crap where did she get that Bioshock Halloween costume?

I think the ultimate 'next-gen' will be when they nail down virtual reality. I know its been tried in the past and usually provide more headaches then great gaming experience, but you can only go so far with immersiveness when you are looking at a flat screen. I want to look around a country-side, Oblivion's for example. I want to feel like I'm in the world, not just watching it on a screen.

Nice add of englsh swearing lol..

First Wii, then this whats next, a flinstone racing game which requires you to run on a exercise bike?

mmm...

That looks photoshopped ... the reflection of the screen on the dome doesnt match whats on the screen (there are two slanted lines on the reflection, but, none on the screen).

Jojo...just wait for Nintendo to do it in probalby 10 years ;)

Nintendo on FTW.

This reminds me of Dark Helmet.

Ah, Spaceballs...

That helmut combined with the wii-mote would make one hell of a Darth Vader simulator.

doh! I can spell helmet, I sware.

If wii is successful, I can see VR coming from nintendo in 2 or 3 generations. And it will be GOOD VR, not that crappy VirtualBoy stuff.

VirtualBoy: 30 years ahead of its time.

Great picture. They've had the technology to do HUD-helmets for a long time now, and it's just not a fun experience. What with the suffocation and all.

Toshiba: Hrm..what to do.. hrmm.. *peers at an old CRT television* Wouldn't it be cool if.. we inverted that television..so the picture was on the inside and you wore it on your head!?

Customer:.. that television actually looks kinda heavy..um, won't that be uncomfortable and hard to breath?

Toshiba: Your points seem valid.. but I want to wear a whole television on my head! Lets do it!

The design is a bit surprising. It looks to be at the polished prototype stage (or there would be cables sticking out everywhere). If so, I'm very surprised they would have made it so tall. The height accentuates tension on the head - along the lines of balancing a short pole is much easier than balancing a long. Or balancing a CRT monitor on your head. It could be mostly empty/lightweight though, but hey..

Ah, the Daily Mail - easily the worst Newspaper the world has ever seen.

Do you know they once ran a front-page headline about the evils of gaming and called UT2004 a 'murder simulator'? Of course overlooking the fact that you shoot weapons that don't exist, in areas that don't exist at enemies that - yep, you guessed it - don't exist.

Virtual boy on steroids is what it looks like.

Only one person dare give me the rasberry........Lone Starr!!!!!

Are you serial?

No sir. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!!

That looks like the back of an old SDTV coupled with one of those dark camera hiding thingies you see in the ceiling at walmart.

Wow, I could make one of these!

Holy hell! That would surly snap one's neck like a dry twig! There is just so much wrong with this setup...

It's Spaceballs all over again!

Toshiba presents - the new head toilet!

24 comments and no Videodrome jokes? And you call yourself geeks.

"the wearer to experience a full 360-degree view on a 40 centimetre dome-shaped screen."

Of course! She is inside the TV!!

Her schwartz is as big as mine...

it's spelled bullocks, not bollocks. If you're gonna pretend to be british, do it right.

Eh? Bullocks are young bulls. Bollocks is the correct spelling.

If you're going to mistakenly correct someone who is correct in the first place then I wouldn't bother.

I bet she gives great helmet

heh, my bad, after looking it up I see you're right, I'm wrong.... bollocks it is.

Dark Helmet: I bet she gives great helmet.

I'd hit it. And she can keep on the helmet.

"Eat it Fred Savage!"

Unbeknowngst(sp) to the readers...that figure inside the TV thingy is actualy...MICHEAL JACKSON! DUM DUM DUMMMMMM

You can clearly see the cockpit from the flight sim in the monitor being reflected off the Giant Helmet, but its not actually on the monitor we see.

I want to know where I can find THAT technology, forget this helmet.

That is definitely the ultimate gaming experience. I need to get me one of those.

Can you imagine the kind of static you'll get from that thing? Everyone will have anime haircuts.

Also, that thing looks like it was made from a vacuum cleaner.

@29

Puss off you dockhead. I know that Americans spell things slightly different than us English, but for focks sake, dont you ficking think that the kunting swear words are spelled the same basthard way you stupid prhick.

I'm soooo depressed.

o_O cmon people, how does this compare to Wii? Hasent the controller proved itself yet? Oh.... thats right, you guys havent played with it yet! :P

It looks like she doing halo survival training, courtisey of master chief.

Can we play a moon-landing sim?

Apparently ity is real:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/photojournal/2.html

so there you go.

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