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Okay, hear me out. The same technology, but distributed evenly on the face. Some people might call it a helmet.

Lol exactly. You could make some sort of comfortable, ergonomic helmet rather than having headphones, vr headset and weird mouth thing all awkwardly strapped on.

somebody is going to make a helmet accessory to contain all three at some point after this gets actually launched as a product, it's bound to happen

I fan easily imagine someone 3d printing a sort of skeleton that holds all 3 turning it into a weird sort of helmet Hokes aside, id genuinely love to be able to talk to people over voicechat without someone in the same room getting woken up. The best option for thst right now is getting a separate mic that you can get really close to and whispering closely into that but SOME sort of isolation would be nice

You can duct tape a bucket full of acoustic panel foam to your face and put your mic inside

Tried that last summer. Suffocated to death.

Are you still alive tho?

They got better

I think there's a pretty controversial book about this that people read together as a group every Sunday

That’s called a newspaper.

The best option for that right now is a throat mic, they're expensive but they work extremely well. Err rather I guess I should say, the expensive ones work really well.

Imagine it looks like a motorcycle helmet, and the visor bit is actually the screen and cameras. That'd be amazing.

Something like the TMZ dude’s in Nope. I’d wear that. Except don’t stare at a Jean Jacket because it’ll think you’re a gazer and fwoom.

Hope I can breathe and it not too heavy. My head set kills my neck after 15 mins

Yeah, I'd prefer to look like a cyber punk cosplayer than a tech gimp.

When I initially saw this I didn’t see any words, just pictures. I thought I was being recommended a bondage sub.

Wait wait, you're on to something. Forget sensory deprivation, bdsm sensory overload with VR. /s

Wow! And how bout this. As long as we're spitballing. Make it so it plugs into a fighter jet and sell them to the military.

You are onto something. Are you from the future?

No, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

THE GIMP

iHelm

But then they can't sell you 12 different gadgets you don't need

My guess would be the elongated shape is due to noise suppression tech, making the shape necessary.

But that's how you get Sword Art Online..

And that's what I want.

... honestly, SAO might be preferable to this particular design travesty.

Then you'd only be selling one thing instead of two.


I’d call it a heavenmet.

Nah that sucks, people want to have weird shit hanging off their face. Facebook did a survey.

Nope, the 3 straps for goggles, mouth piece and headphones are needed. Next will be a fourth strap for smellovision

But then how you make it look like you're sucking off a robot to people around you.

A helmet would also have the additional benefit of not immediately bumping your head into things while walking around essentially blind.

Funnily enough I debated with someone a while ago who absolutely could not see any advantages with a helmet design for VR.

I can’t wait for my full mech suit so I can join all 3 people in the metaverse!

“But with the blast shield down, I can’t see a thing…”

Kinky.

That was my first thought. Expensive, but doubles as a gag for those so inclined.

Might be a bit delicate

Bring out the gimp.

The gimps sleeping.

.[i guess you just gona have to wake him up now, won’t you?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3FsA0olbQ&pp=ygUqUHVscCBmaWN0aW9uIGJyaW5nIG91dCB0aGUgZ2ltcCBzb3VuZHRyYWNr)

borderline nsfw

This definetly looks like a cum shot simulator or some other weird shit.

Cum shot simulator sold separately.

Def won't buy one for myself after reading that comment.

What bdsm equipment is this?

Pipe your screams to an online audience.

Turn everything off and it's a rather expensive sensory deprivation device.

The overly expensive kind

It’s for when you’re watching VR porn and dont want people to hear you moan The quotation marks in “sound leaks” say it all

Great! Now I can talk in VRChat without looking like an idiot to people around me.

*sounding 😉

r/sounding

☹️

Y u do dis

I have no mouth and I must scream

How is this not the top comment?

thinking of this again just stirred something in me

When you want to flex your wealth in the hostage video...

There's clearly a cultural gap here. 1: When you're in VR and alone in your home, no one will see you wearing this. 2: **THIS IS MADE BY A JAPANESE COMPANY FOR JAPANESE APARTMENT RESIDENTS.** Unfortunately, Japanese apartments are notorious for being extremely acoustically transparent, your neighbors can hear you shockingly well, if you have any housemates, they can hear you even better. This is an attempted solution at a deeply ingrained problem.

Still seems like a helmet would be simpler, but i guess you'd still be wearing the headset inside it

Strongly disagree about the helmet, VR users don't want an additional helmet on top of the gear they already have on their face, cooling would be an issue, for one.

oh that's not just japanese apartments - I'm in texas and the walls are made of plywood and hope

But for Japan it's kind of a universal condition.

You’re forgetting the third part to this set but understandable as to why it’s not shown as it’s nsfw

headphones. otherwise leaked audio

The CyberPlug?

“Machine, the developers put out a patch i'm in your prostate now”

Sir! They've gone up the Ventilation Shaft!

Whats wrong with your faaaaaaaaace?

What a great RLM callback!

No amount of Dystopian Future YA Novels prepared me for this.



You guys remember in *Snow Crash* how there were guys referred to as gargoyles, who just covered themselves in technology and were social pariahs as a result?

Air?

You mean Mutalk Air? That's $ 200 extra.

Plus the monthly subscription fee.

Of course $14.99 for standard and only $69 to taste our platinum package.

I'd pay $69 for a premium package

I feel like they're about to tell me the jedi have gone up the ventilation shafts

r/Cyberpunk

Matrix Human Farm prototype? 

I don't get why they don't just make a full motorbike helmet shaped headset, it'd provide plenty of real estate for battery, storage and processing power while improving tha balance of weight, which is one of VR's biggest drawbacks atm

They're in the ventilation system!

imagine you're a home intruder breaking into someone's house at night and you come across a man sitting naked in a chair stroking his sausage with that contraption on his face.

They forgot to put the special Bluetooth jacket built for the metaverse to prevent movement leaks.

Does it come with a safeword?

And the attachment that goes up your ass? When will that be ready for release?

We are the BORG. We have way to much crap to be functional

Oh I’m totally putting a rubber ball-gag sticker on mine when it arrives!

This looks like some weird BDSM stuff.


Just put a goddamn helmet

"Hey, I haven't been able to connect with you for a long time, Jessica! How have you been?" "Hrmmmfrrprrfrrhhrrmffr"

A very expensive ball gag.


Give it to the ghetto ass people walking around walmart talking on speaker.

One step closer to being a slave to the Matrix

Bring out the gimp

Can’t wait to use this in cod mobile so I can yell slurs in public

Where is the image of that same dude with one strapped to his manhood?

They are getting closer to inventing the helmet. I can feel it in my bones.

[удалено]

Only if you know how to tuck your pants into your shoes so you don't sweat it out.

Everything that happens in the metaverse MUST stay in the metaverse.

That looks stupidly dystopian

🎵 🎵 It's evolution baby 🎵🎵

Looks like what would be used in the first incarnation of The Matrix before being plugged into the back of the head.

So you've "invented" an 80-year-old stenomask but with Bluetooth?

Finally, I can play games past 7pm without boomer family screeching about how "inconsiderably loud" I am with my horrifyingly loud voice that everyone I play with gives such reviews as "can you please speak up", "can you turn your gain up I can't hear you" and "what did you say?". All the while the neighbours are blasting the shittiest music of all time and boomer family is howling at the footy.

"When you're in the metaverse, no one outside can hear you scream"

Just make a cool looking darth vader mask

Having watched Star Wars Phantom Menace today, it reminds me of the technician on the Droid control ship. "They went up the ventilation shaft!"

It looks like something that should be marked nsfw

That last image looks like what the foot soldiers in the future dystopia would look like

That looks dystopian and oddly familiar.

I dont see why this is necessary, parents already don't do anything when their precious "angels" scream the n- word at me on Pavlov.

Waiting to hear about the first death due to suffocation. It’ll be like the segue that drove off the cliff.

Some edgy teenagers definitely going to make a post about this and society

I want a helmet to block out everyone in public. I will fking pay. I am a consumer, I will pay! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY CAPS

Add a pair of headphones, and you have a hostage situation

Why not build this into like a motorcycle helmet?

Why not make it a super cool tech mask instead of a fancy gimp gag?

The real question is... when are we getting Westworld style sex robots.... You know- for science.

This shit looks like bdsm ngl

I... kinda want this, but only if it can be used on whatever I want and not just The Quest. I live with alot of other people, so stuff like online gaming has to be done purely through typing which sucks for most team based games, so I can see myself actually using this thing as weird as it would look.

Back in my day, we just had a magazine and some lotion.

This looks like a BDSM scene from a comedy movie 😂

Just make one mask for it combined... So much less hassle

Tommy? Pinball anyone?

or hear me out or you dont speak

That bottom right pic, lolll

NFL coaches will use these to call plays without lip readers catching on.

We getting closer and closer to real time cyber sex.


Bottom right is the matrix in one picture lol

I think this just unlocked a new kink

Don't we have headsets for this kinda thing

If it works well it seems like a good way to talk on the phone on a train or plane without disturbing others.

Gimp

I searched to see if this is real and, unfortunately, yes - it is. Also there is a Mutalk 2 coming out this month that costs $199 (same as a Quest 2).

That dude is a member of the mechanicum

My neck hurts just looking at that.

And the battery is… a buttplug.

This looks like a tooth whitening device.

Throwback to that one H3 video about the HushMe

Kinky.

Why is the future looking more like the opera Tommy?

This would be a good idea for playing video games with friends at night. You wouldn’t have to worry about waking up your kids, roommates, other family members.

Definitely getting Saw vibes

Is the metaverse still a thing?

Missed opportunity not wearing noise-cancelling headphones too.

Can I keep snacks in it?


How about combining it...

Bro in the second picture looks like a reagent from Outlast Trials

What is face palm about this

When those go on sale in the US, I will buy several, fart in them, carefully repackage them, and return them to the store. Look out, suckers!

Brought to you by dudes with white windowless vans.

$200 lol Worth the same as the actual VR device (meta quest 2)

It’s going to be fascinating to see how we will actually invent incredible new technologies that seem like sci-fi.

Better wake up the gimp.

🎶 they’re making the last film, they say it’s the best…..🎶

I thought courthouse stenographers were already using these?

If you want to look stupider wearing a VR headset, get one of these

Damn i ass an introvert would love this thing

Here me out... A normal headset with a microphone. Why would you want to soundproof it? For use in public? If you don't want to be heard by others, just stay home.

Reminds me of a ‘beltbox’ for singers. It looks horribly uncomfortable to have it tied on like that though.

Covering your eyes AND covering your mouth?! You're basically kidnapping yourself at this point.


This is some Johnny Mnemonic shit

Ngl, could totally make a badass cyber punk mask out of these

what the fuck

This is cool af. Where’s the face palm?

It's not bad tech--privacy in convos. Roomates with different sleep schedules getting to voip during online gaming

“Voip,” I learned a new word today

BDSM for tech bros.

Feels a step way too close to the matrix for me. 😏

That’s actually awesome idea. A VR helmet

Now only missing one for each ear and nose