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Disney made a jacket to simulate physical experiences, like a snake slithering through your body.

Disney Research, MIT Media Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have presented a new conceptual haptic "power jacket" that simulates the physical experiences of people who use the device. The forced jacket is lined with airbags controlled by a computer that inflates and deflates the bags. Disney imagines that the jacket will be used with VR headphones for more immersive experiences, given that it is capable of simulating hugs, receiving blows or punches and, interestingly, the sensation of a snake slithering through its body. The jacket is composed of airbags with connected sensors that direct force and vibrations to specific places on your body.

The software-controlled jacket weighs approximately 5 pounds and has a valve system that inflates and deflates 26 air compartments. It has adjustable sleeves, and the vest is made of a reused life jacket with the inner foam replaced by airbags. The air compartments are located in the front, back, arms and sides of the jacket.

The speed, strength and duration of inflation and deflation can be controlled using a haptic effect software editor. In their article, researchers from the Disney, MIT and Carnegie Mellon project wrote: "At this stage of the work, the goal is to develop the basic technology for Force Jacket that is sufficient for basic psychophysical evaluation and to design and test an initial set. of effects. "Until now, those effects include: accelerated heartbeat, light or heavy rain, snowball hit in the chest, a touch on the shoulder, dribbling dribble in the back, an error that goes up his arm and motorcycle vibrations There are more refining parameters, such as controlling the feeling of how fast that error is dragging.

The researchers built three virtual reality applications to test the jacket, including a snowball fight game, a snake simulator that crawls around and a simulation of "growing muscles," such as becoming a Hulk.