A vest or gloves to feel bullet holes or bee stings... At CES, the Las Vegas technology fair which ends on January 8, the games industry has put forward accessories that allow players to experience their adventures beyond the screen.
The bHaptics feedback jacket, connected to the virtual reality headset, reproduces the actions that take place in the game world. The haptic gloves, on the other hand, add the sense of touch.
"People can smell the bullets, but also the wind, the rain or even the bees", assures Kiuk Gwak, a representative of the South Korean company.
A cushion that transforms games
Razer, for its part, presented a cushion supposed to allow players “to feel everything that is happening behind them, and thus place them in the heart of the action”.
The company specializing in hardware for video games ensures that "Project Carol" is the first cushion with its multichannel and haptic materials.
Razer will also market a portable console called Edge in the United States at the end of January for 400 dollars.
Like Dell and Acer, the company takes advantage above all of the CES to highlight high-performance laptops, with very high definition screens and powerful electronic chips, designed especially for video games.
Play in car
"Video games with hyperrealistic images need extremely sophisticated graphics cards," said Scott Herkelman, vice president of semiconductor manufacturer AMD.
Its competitor Nvidia was also present, to announce that its video game service via the cloud, GeForce Now, would be accessible in vehicles for the first time, thanks to an alliance with Hyundai, BYD and Polestar.
"Thanks to the cloud and mobile internet, passengers will no longer be bored between music, movies and video games in the car," Nvidia said in a press release, noting that the driver could only play when his vehicle is parked.
Other consumer electronics giants, South Korea's LG and Samsung, have put forward bespoke screens for gamers, with curves to improve the feeling of immersion in the game.
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