I have mentioned in the Background section about the TN Games vest. Infact we ordered a few of them and tested it before we started building ours.

I was really inspired by their work and they being the first one’s to build something like this, have done a really good job. I especially liked the way they have got their jacket so rugged, light weighted and easy to setup. Also TN Games did a fair amount of job on the gaming side.

TN Games vest is a pneumatic one requiring external air compressor (a rather noisy device). Also I was interested in doing some research about how we can use electronics for applications like this. We are not comparing our self to TN Games vest as they have made a product, and we are more on the research end yet trying to figure out how we can simulate various effects and studying human’s psychology when using it.

Regarding Interactor vest: never got a chance to try this one so cannot say whats it like. But gathering the information from around web, I understand that it just vibrated and uses a sub-woofer on the back.

http://tngames.com/
Coincidence?

and hopefully a step up above this:
http://www.vrealities.com/intervest.html

now all one needs to do is hook up via a remote iPhone app and really have virtual phone s3x!

Congrats to the team…