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Quite Close!

As you implied it would be expensive to experience the cutting edge right now but here is what it would look like:

You would want a really high end headset, a haptic suit, haptic gloves, graphics cards and a pc to run it, and game to actually experience it.

-Pimax 8k $1500

-Research grade haptic gloves[0] $5000-$10000?

-Tesla Suit $2750

-Gaming pc and Scalped 3090s to run in SLI $10000

You could do a treadmill too but I actually don't think that tech is quite there yet and question just how much more immersed you would be at that point.

Now once your discount iron man suit is fully equipped what game do you actually play? You mentioned skyrimVR it actually has ok haptic support via mods.

However, what you really would want to play for the full Oasis experience is VRChat where with your haptic suit you could high five someone or feel them tap on your shoulder. It's also a thriving community full of bizarre worlds and avatars. Most of the hardware isn't directly supported in VRChat but you can find guides online of people getting it to work.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK2y4Z5IkZ0




That is indeed closer than I expected! Thank you for the links / names.




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