The Tamaran



The Tamaran (タマラン, literally just Tamaran) is a piece of hardware fabricated from the genius mind of Shase Tatashi.

Aliases

 * Tama
 * Full Dive VR Headset

Appearance
The Tamaran is a futuristic Tron looking helmet, typically with a jet black finish and installed customizable neon glowing lights. From purchase, the look of the Tamaran is customizable, and with time the customization will only grow. They have their own website, and during purchase you're able to customize the helmet's size, texture and color. The backside of the helmet has a hidden charger port, which is under a compartment that you can open up. When closed, it's pretty seamless.

Background
The Tamaran was created for an idea a lead game developer had, that lead developer being Shase Tatashi. It's creation was supported by the combining help of neuroscientists, computer engineers & scientists, and Tatashi along with his team of game developers. What had provoked this idea was Tatashi's want for something new and exciting for games, despite the evolution of technology and life all around them, games and gaming surprisingly didn't evolve all that much. Also, people started to turn away from gaming, and being a game developer it made him quite sad. He wanted to make gaming a whole new experience for everyone, and so he did.

Capabilities
The Tamaran is a piece of hardware dedicated to a whole new experience of virtual reality gaming, supporting all senses while playing a game, stimulating the brain towards all sensations someone would feel in real life and possibly even greater. This is done by putting the wearer to sleep and connecting itself to the wearer's conscience, making the user's brain able to receive and send information to servers; or the headset itself. When powering it on, it doesn't immediately put the wearer to sleep, it acts as if though it was a normal virtual reality headset, and you can choose whether to turn it off, which you can do by tapping the left side of the helmet, or continue, which you can tap the right side of the helmet. If someone else taps it, it won't work, it only works if it knows that you signaled yourself to do that, since it's connected to your conscience and sub-conscience. While asleep, if it's your first time using it, you'll be brought to a void room which you can fully customize your avatar, which is pretty much just you. Then you're sent to a room that allows you to pick what game you want to play or whatnot. Currently, the only game that the Tamaran supports is Kaneyami, but there's a list of other software, like a drawing room and a browser; which makes you feel as if you're inside a computer. There's also a supported friend and party system, which allows things like sending messages or voice chat. To be fair, this is actually the ultimate form of catfishing, as you can mask your voice or appearance however you want it to be. Despite it being linked to your conscience, you aren't entirely in control, especially in games. You're confined to the software's/game's rules. To exit is pretty simple, just try to wake up and it'll shut off, waking you up. As well, it'll alert you whenever the battery is low, and if it ever does shut off it doesn't do anything even slightly harmful, it just wakes you up. Your mind is awake but your body is asleep, which means you're getting rest while playing a game. The battery, fully charged, can last as long as a few months. Whatever you're experiencing is going on real-time, so with each second that goes by in your conscience is going on in real-time. It also supports a lot of safety features, measuring all your vitals and whatever not. In Kaneyami, time abilities exist, and how it works is very strange, but the explanation on it wont be given yet, just know time abilities exist and they work, whether it's time stopping, time skipping, et cetera.

Additional Information
The cost of the Tamaran is between $499.99 - $1,000.00, depending on where you're buying it from. Pre-Alpha and Alpha testers get the Tamaran for free, however Beta Testers and Gamma testers had to pay only about $80.00 - $100.00. Pre-purchasing it was $699.99, and buying it on release was almost impossible really, but people managed to get it for $599.99. After that, prices ranged, usually anything under $900 was immediately bought out.