Wii remote hardware being used to develop tech that could simulate the feeling of bullets penetrating your skin

Games today just aren’t realistic enough, eh? Why stop at the realistic visuals and settings when we could feel the sting of a bullet in a Modern Warfare match or the whack of blade in The Legend of Zelda? Fortunately, the folks over at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo are working hard on a new device which may bring our games to the “next level.”

The device is meant to simulate the feeling of an object passing through your hand, ultimately meant to “improve the sense of realism in games.” Wait, how exactly do you feel something that’s not actually happening? It’s all thanks to the eerie-sounding “phantom sensation.” A phantom sensation occurs “when two points on your skin are stimulated at the same time,” and this results in the feeling that “the space between them is being touched.”

The device is currently built with some Wii-remote technology.

I can’t be the only one that sees this as completely unnecessary, right?