Quicksand Fans

So, I have been watching videos of VR simulator games on Spammal's Youtube channel recently, and I have been wondering, what a Quicksand simulator game should be like if one is ever made.

It would be simple enough (for a game developer) to create an environment for a character to explore and sink in, and create a VR experience. The issue, though, is the disconnect with your limbs and other sensations. It may look and sound like you're sinking in quicksand, but how do you restrain your limbs? I suppose self-bondage would be the answer.

I have actually given this some consideration a while ago. Of course you wouldn't *feel* the quicksand, but a well-made VR quicksand experience still sounds quite interesting even without physical restraints. I use the term "experience" here, because that's what they usually call the sort of VR thing that lacks any sort of gameplay element. An actual VR game would be much more complex and offer some sort of challenge such as rescuing yourself or whoever is sinking into the quicksand.

It's definitely something I would like to try and play, but I doubt there's much of a market for QS VR games. But hey, maybe someone will give it a shot anyway, so feel free to throw around some ideas for what should go into this kind of VR game/experience.

Aiko wrote:I have actually given this some consideration a while ago. Of course you wouldn't *feel* the quicksand, but a well-made VR quicksand experience still sounds quite interesting even without physical restraints. I use the term "experience" here, because that's what they usually call the sort of VR thing that lacks any sort of gameplay element. An actual VR game would be much more complex and offer some sort of challenge such as rescuing yourself or whoever is sinking into the quicksand.

It's definitely something I would like to try and play, but I doubt there's much of a market for QS VR games. But hey, maybe someone will give it a shot anyway, so feel free to throw around some ideas for what should go into this kind of VR game/experience.

I know that scientists and engineers have experimented with devices that would provide some degree of tactile feedback to a human user, although I don't know how much progress has been made. For example, consider a device worn as a glove that would control, say a scalpel moving across a patient's flesh and that would provide the wearer (surgeon) feedback on how much pressure is being applied. Such a device might allow a surgeon in a secure location to do emergency surgery on a patient in a battle zone.
If feedback can be provided for pressure it ought to be a relatively small step to add other forms of feedback, such as heat and cold (heat, cold, and pressure are all detected by different sensory organs within the skin, and interpreted in specific locations in the brain).
I suspect that there probably WOULD be a market for some sort of whole-body suit, perhaps as a device for adult-oriented virtual reality games behaviors.
Note that I used itlic type because there appear to be no struck-through characters.
For the foreseeable future, however, it would probably cheaper to just build a mudpit.

Fred588 wrote:

Aiko wrote:I have actually given this some consideration a while ago. Of course you wouldn't *feel* the quicksand, but a well-made VR quicksand experience still sounds quite interesting even without physical restraints. I use the term "experience" here, because that's what they usually call the sort of VR thing that lacks any sort of gameplay element. An actual VR game would be much more complex and offer some sort of challenge such as rescuing yourself or whoever is sinking into the quicksand.

It's definitely something I would like to try and play, but I doubt there's much of a market for QS VR games. But hey, maybe someone will give it a shot anyway, so feel free to throw around some ideas for what should go into this kind of VR game/experience.

I know that scientists and engineers have experimented with devices that would provide some degree of tactile feedback to a human user, although I don't know how much progress has been made. For example, consider a device worn as a glove that would control, say a scalpel moving across a patient's flesh and that would provide the wearer (surgeon) feedback on how much pressure is being applied. Such a device might allow a surgeon in a secure location to do emergency surgery on a patient in a battle zone.
If feedback can be provided for pressure it ought to be a relatively small step to add other forms of feedback, such as heat and cold (heat, cold, and pressure are all detected by different sensory organs within the skin, and interpreted in specific locations in the brain).
I suspect that there probably WOULD be a market for some sort of whole-body suit, perhaps as a device for adult-oriented virtual reality games behaviors.
Note that I used itlic type because there appear to be no struck-through characters.
For the foreseeable future, however, it would probably cheaper to just build a mudpit.

Well, there is the Teslasuit (https://teslasuit.io/), or there will be someday, maybe. Not sure after their Kickstarter got cancelled. Anyway, when I said you would not feel it, I was referring to VR as it is available today.

it's not VR but the new game red dead redemptipn. I have made a petition for the online on that game and requested they put quicksand around different locations of the map could you sign the petition and share it about please

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/qui ... ead-online

It's not perfect yet, but I have started work on a tar pit in VR on the social game Neos.

There's no haptic feedback as most people wouldn't have the equipment for it. It's also fairly simplistic.

If the game developer could rig an interface with this type of air compression suit ($430. )to VR simulate the sensation of the sinking QS grip then perhaps it could become a reality

quicksand3D wrote:If the game developer could rig an interface with this type of air compression suit ($430. )to VR simulate the sensation of the sinking QS grip then perhaps it could become a reality

I know next to nothing about VR games but I will suggest a different approach. Rather than a compression suit, if one had a suit or other device that could simply simulate a degree of resistance to movement, the none could perhaps get the effects of pressure, temperature, and even wetness all at once by wearing the device in a small swimming pool (allowances being made for safety - water and electrical). Then add some goggles to create the desired visual effects.

Hate to say it but once you've had the real thing I don't think anything below the level of a Holodeck or plugging yourself into the Matrix would feel "real" enough.
The other thing I think would be missing is smell. It's not something we often think about but the way the smell of wet earth grows stronger and stronger as you're drawn deeper into it is a part of the experience as well. Also taste if you get deep enough.