Ultimate gaming experience or pain in the neck?
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Oct 16th 2006 at 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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C. Grant @ Oct 16th 2006 11:12AM
Why is she playing in front of a (rather nice looking) screen if she's wearing that thing?
vc @ Oct 16th 2006 11:15AM
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.
Branewalker @ Oct 16th 2006 11:28AM
Looks like Canti from FLCL.
--Branewalker
SecondChance @ Oct 16th 2006 11:28AM
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..."
dsub @ Oct 16th 2006 11:30AM
holy crap where did she get that Bioshock Halloween costume?
Jojo @ Oct 16th 2006 11:31AM
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.
HOVA uk @ Oct 16th 2006 11:33AM
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...
> @ Oct 16th 2006 11:33AM
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).
BlindsideDork @ Oct 16th 2006 11:34AM
Jojo...just wait for Nintendo to do it in probalby 10 years ;)
KVN @ Oct 16th 2006 11:35AM
Nintendo on FTW.
jygsaw @ Oct 16th 2006 1:34PM
This reminds me of Dark Helmet.
Ah, Spaceballs...
gameclu @ Oct 16th 2006 11:39AM
That helmut combined with the wii-mote would make one hell of a Darth Vader simulator.
gameclu @ Oct 16th 2006 11:41AM
doh! I can spell helmet, I sware.
crono141 @ Oct 16th 2006 11:46AM
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.
Franky Digital @ Oct 16th 2006 11:42AM
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.
Mabui @ Oct 16th 2006 11:48AM
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!
Michael @ Oct 16th 2006 5:55PM
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..
Garcian_Smith @ Oct 16th 2006 11:54AM
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.
Sneak @ Oct 16th 2006 11:54AM
Virtual boy on steroids is what it looks like.
nitefire @ Oct 16th 2006 12:00PM
Only one person dare give me the rasberry........Lone Starr!!!!!
Agent MOO @ Oct 16th 2006 12:19PM
Are you serial?
Darien @ Oct 16th 2006 12:23PM
No sir. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!!
Thumper @ Oct 16th 2006 12:30PM
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!
Onomah @ Oct 16th 2006 12:46PM
Holy hell! That would surly snap one's neck like a dry twig! There is just so much wrong with this setup...
inferno10 @ Oct 16th 2006 12:45PM
It's Spaceballs all over again!
diskoboy @ Oct 16th 2006 12:52PM
Toshiba presents - the new head toilet!
Mikey @ Oct 16th 2006 1:13PM
24 comments and no Videodrome jokes? And you call yourself geeks.
Trylks @ Oct 16th 2006 1:29PM
"the wearer to experience a full 360-degree view on a 40 centimetre dome-shaped screen."
Of course! She is inside the TV!!
Jason B @ Oct 16th 2006 1:44PM
Her schwartz is as big as mine...
Mike @ Oct 16th 2006 1:45PM
it's spelled bullocks, not bollocks. If you're gonna pretend to be british, do it right.
mupwangle @ Oct 16th 2006 1:52PM
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.
ZAN @ Oct 16th 2006 1:57PM
I bet she gives great helmet
Mike @ Oct 16th 2006 2:09PM
heh, my bad, after looking it up I see you're right, I'm wrong.... bollocks it is.
flood254 @ Oct 16th 2006 5:29PM
Dark Helmet: I bet she gives great helmet.
Cottonball @ Oct 16th 2006 3:01PM
I'd hit it. And she can keep on the helmet.
greendude @ Oct 16th 2006 3:11PM
"Eat it Fred Savage!"
Mitsuo @ Oct 16th 2006 3:59PM
Unbeknowngst(sp) to the readers...that figure inside the TV thingy is actualy...MICHEAL JACKSON! DUM DUM DUMMMMMM
Devwar @ Oct 16th 2006 5:34PM
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.
Mossflower @ Oct 17th 2006 11:17PM
That is definitely the ultimate gaming experience. I need to get me one of those.
Joe @ Oct 16th 2006 6:09PM
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.
Wilky @ Oct 16th 2006 6:10PM
@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.
Angelo @ Oct 16th 2006 7:25PM
I'm soooo depressed.
Beesnipe @ Oct 16th 2006 7:51PM
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.
Allen @ Oct 16th 2006 11:43PM
Can we play a moon-landing sim?
Bernard @ Oct 17th 2006 7:56AM
Apparently ity is real:
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/photojournal/2.html
so there you go.