Can a Gaming Vest Improve the Fun-Factor and Your Performance?

For gamers who like to be competitive or look for different ways to “spice” things up, there’s certainly no shortage of peripherals available. Most often, mice and keyboards are the first place gamers look for an increase to their performance, but there are other things that can vastly change your experience as well – even a mousepad. Or my favorite… a product to make sure your mouse cord doesn’t move during heavy gameplay (that’s more useful than you might think).

But what if you really want to get into your game? I mean really? What if someone shot at you and you felt it right in the chest? Would that be realistic enough? Well, a company that goes by TN Games creates just such a product, and it comes in the form of a vest. A peripheral best worn in the winter, perhaps?

The idea of the vest is simple… to make you feel your in-game punishment in real-life. It’s not so strong that it’s uncomfortable, but rather just enough to make the game feel more immersive. The company also talks about the product giving you an advantage, but I have no idea how something like this could ever give you one… unless it was incredibly precise.

Unfortunately, this one doesn’t seem to be. The reviewer said that he’d at times be shot in the back only to feel it all over, or on the wrong sides, making the product an overall neat idea but not that practical. What would make a product like this excellent is to have equally excellent developer support, but for small companies such as this, that kind of challenge is not an easy one.

Preparing the vest for use takes a bit of effort. As with most peripherals, you have both hardware and software to manage. Let’s begin with getting the vest set-up. You’ll notice an installed tube running from the front-right side of the garment, leading to a connector that will be attached to the air compressor. Since you’re working with compressed air, the connection utilizes a pressure sealing tip to prevent leaks.