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b'From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn\\u2019t even know were XR-compatible. Antony Vitillo \\u2013 AKA Skarred Ghost \\u2013 drops in to discuss different devices with Alan, their use cases, and what companies should consider when they go shopping for some.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: Today\\u2019s guest is Antony\\nVitillo, better known as Skarred Ghost. Antony is an XR consultant\\nand author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. He also runs a\\nconsulting company called New Technology Walkers, where they develop\\nVR solutions and advise companies about how best to use VR and AR.\\nAntony recently traveled to the fourth annual VIVE Ecosystem\\nConference \\u2014 VEC \\u2014 in Shenzhen, China. If you\\u2019re not already\\nfollowing Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on\\nLinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. Tony\\nwelcome to the show.\\n\\n\\n\\nAntony: Hello, Alan! Thanks for\\nthis opportunity.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: It\\u2019s so great to have you\\non the show. I had a wonderful opportunity to speak with you many\\ntimes, and we are both very, very passionate about virtual and\\naugmented reality. I want to just thank you for taking the time to be\\non the show.\\n\\n\\n\\nAntony: I\\u2019m very happy to be\\nwith you. I\\u2019m happy to speak to you live, after so many messages\\nwe\\u2019ve done on LinkedIn. Super happy to be here.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: Let\\u2019s just dive right in,\\nand we\\u2019re going to try to bring as much value as we can to the\\nlisteners today. We have a lot to go through; we\\u2019re going to go\\nthrough all of the different hardware aspects involved in\\nVirtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality \\u2014 XR \\u2014 and it\\u2019s not just the\\nheadsets or headphones. You\\u2019ve got things like haptic suits, haptic\\ngloves. You\\u2019ve got touch-sensitive stimulators. You\\u2019ve got VR\\nheadsets, AR headsets. You\\u2019ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking\\nset devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal\\ndevices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course,\\ntreadmills for omni-directional walking. So there\\u2019s a lot to unpack\\nhere. Let\\u2019s start at something crazy; haptic suits. Let\\u2019s talk about\\nhaptic suits, and why and where these would be used in any\\nindustries.\\n\\n\\n\\nAntony: I\\u2019m very interested to\\nhave these suits, because they offer the promise of letting you use\\nyour full body in VR. So, finally, you can be there with all your\\nbody. You know, my first startup was about full-body in VR, but using\\nKinect. So, a different approach, but I\\u2019m a big fan of having the\\npossibility to kick objects, to move your body in every possible way,\\nand see your full self replicated in VR. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe advantage of using the haptic suits\\nover other approaches, like the one that they used with Kinect, is\\nthat you don\\u2019t only have your full body \\u2014 your full movement \\u2014 in\\nVR, but you can also feel sensations. You can have haptic feedback.\\nSo you can [feel] hot, cold. You can feel pain and whatever. It\\u2019s\\nreally full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player\\nOne movie. Wade Watts wore that expensive suit, to fully be inside\\nthe Oasis. This is why I think they\\u2019re very interesting, because they\\ncan really enhance your visual experience; your sense of presence,\\nlike your ancestors like to say.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: So, let\\u2019s unpack this for\\na second, Tony. What would some of the practical use cases of this\\u2026\\nI can see one in military training, where you\\u2019re in a virtual world,\\nyou\\u2019re in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind\\nyou \\u2014 a piece of shrapnel hits you \\u2014 and maybe it vibrates. Maybe\\nexplain some other instances, where this could be used in enter'