Okay.

So, I've been thinking and...


There will be problems with the suit: there are a lot of different people in the world, we would have to do a different suit for everyone.

That would take shitloads of time, which isn't good.

Which could be good.

So, Wii but with all of your body parts?

I was thinking custom built. They're gonna be ****ing expensive to start with, a little extra won't hurt. If we're selling these things to the military they'll throw money at it - a large ammount of military spending is just for the sake of saying that the government in question is spending that much on the military.

On the other hand, the pieces could be made seperate and small and then just callibrated for the indervidual, for example a hand wouldn't necessarily need a glove; it could be rings.

Ugh, you people have it all wrong...


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No more Fallout 3 for you.

I love this idea, but honestly I know multiple people who got an xbox360 instead of a play station 3 because the price on the ps3 is exorbitant. How would you try and sell something so hugely expensive? It seems almost impossible because why get that when you could get an xbox360, every game for it, four controllers, xbox live for three years, A plasma screen tv and still save yourself all the room for a cheaper price. Not to mention the power bill this thing would rack up no one BUT the military could afford it. You would have to be one rich mother ****er. This is certainly not for the hoi polloi. Further more what happens when you try and mass produce it and no one buys it? You end up broke, who ever bought it ends up broke and everyone loses. Besides who wants to add a giant room onto there house just so they can play a game?

But there is an idea, have you heard of the concept that someone can see without eyes? They plug a a light sensor into there brain and when it picks up light it sends it to there brain and can some what see, I think that they could only wee little because of the fact that they were conscious. If they were asleep perhaps they could use more of there brain or in a more closed of environment. Maybe this way they don't need a giant room or a huge suit. More comming later....

That thar be a matrix machine be it not? If it could be made to work it may trump us, but I suspect surgery would be involved.

The marketing strategy for the VR suit would be to primarily target the military for training troops at lower costs. It takes less space to train a tank crew in one of these than in a tank.
The secondary market is competitive sports. An unreal-tournament style competition with one of these things could attract huge sponsorship, tons of merchandise, and enourmous audiences - both on television and live with spectators watching a huge screen that the virtual cameras are wizzing around whilst being able to see the athletes in their suits running around suspended in the air.
The home entertainment market was always going to be limited by price and the fact that simple games would require immense physical fitness.

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That thar be a matrix machine be it not? If it could be made to work it may trump us, but I suspect surgery would be involved.

The marketing strategy for the VR suit would be to primarily target the military for training troops at lower costs. It takes less space to train a tank crew in one of these than in a tank.
The secondary market is competitive sports. An unreal-tournament style competition with one of these things could attract huge sponsorship, tons of merchandise, and enourmous audiences - both on television and live with spectators watching a huge screen that the virtual cameras are wizzing around whilst being able to see the athletes in their suits running around suspended in the air.
The home entertainment market was always going to be limited by price and the fact that simple games would require immense physical fitness.

No I wasn't thinking the matrix, however I do see your point. Yet how would you get past the initial selling to the public? The stores need reasons to buy it and if they are lacking those why buy them. Also as for the virtual battle idea, how would you deal with getting that out. Humans are cruel animals it isn't like people would be really dieing. Though it could attract a large gambling scene.

Why can i imagine the ball being somewhat like a hamster wheel, but more advanced.

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No I wasn't thinking the matrix, however I do see your point. Yet how would you get past the initial selling to the public? The stores need reasons to buy it and if they are lacking those why buy them. Also as for the virtual battle idea, how would you deal with getting that out. Humans are cruel animals it isn't like people would be really dieing. Though it could attract a large gambling scene.

The point is that there never would be any selling to the public. Tell the military that they can train troops with 10% of the resources that used to be necessary and profits will follow. The public need not be aware that the product exists until we've been selling it for ten years.

The competition would be advertised within the military first as a bit of friendly competition between baracks'. Each regiment enters a team (free of charge) and we see who wins. The second year of running it would have any bugs sorted and the third year would be televised. Do that for two more years and then after the show put on a thirty second piece about how the competition would be going public; see website for details. Then we charge a small entry fee to the public teams. Eventually the best players will be bought and sold to other teams and corporate sponsership will be privately aranged (with fees to the competition runners of course) and it will become like any other competitive sport.

Haha, that would be awesome. You can even give out trophy's. I can see motivational posters then, showing some huge buff guy below and it's worded. " would you **** with this nerd?". That would be great, I am just trying to think of all the flaws that could happen so that they can be prevented and handled. For instance, it is all being sold under the assumption that the military would buy it. What if the military doesn't buy it? What if they decide there are to many risks or to many flaws then what?
Also the politicians almost shit themselves when the first mortal combat came out, this would make them have an enormous moral episode. How would that be dealt with.

Yet you could have a lot of army ads at the arena and during intermission commercials. That increasing you're funding even more, selling them at about twenty grand a machine (I am not counting in euro) They need probably a few hundred thousand along with other military in the world buying them. Have you take one percent of all money off of any bets and then invest your huge richness into buying Micro soft, then Sony, then Nintendo. Own the market in video games invest you're enormous amount's of cash into becoming immortal then buy every thing else until you rule it all eternally. ([SIZE="1"]Scratch that last part.[/SIZE])

If the military don't buy it then my dreams of wealth beyond my wildest dreams (wait...) will crumble to dust and I'll commit suicide by programing the prototype to break me. They will buy this machine. It's the sort of sales pitch I'd let a Frenchman make; it can't fail! Hypothetically, if it did, then I suppose we would have to go back to the drawing board and work out why they didn't want it, adress the flaws, and re-try.

If it turned out to be completely unsellable for whatever reason then I suspect there are other markets out there for good VR, even if they are smaller. There're things like pilot training, driving teaching, billionaires with bugger all else to spend money on, NASA, al quaeda, and, if all else fails, idiots.

Political opposition is an interesting one that I had not considered. Rational argument and debate would of course be a primary tool. Secondarily, if they can see the potential in it then I think 0.002% each should shut them up. If they won't be bought then, whilst the assassination route is open, a slightly more ethical route is scandal/blackmail. (If anyone can see a legal route then by all means speak up)

you know, sometime in the near future, i'd like a magic stone that moves around pixels of light at your will through some sort of device known as a controller

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