Zin technology in SRTT?

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JokeJujitsu

You know that virtual reality chair you get in "Stop All the Downloading"? It seems to work in a similar manner to the simulation pod things in Saints Row IV. (i.e. interfaces directly with one's brain rather than more traditional methods.) So could that mean that the one in SRTT is also Zin technology? Remember, Kinzie (and Oleg) said there were only two in existence, one of which was destroyed. Now if humans had developed that technology and understood how it worked, you'd think they would rush to fix the major safety issue (which the Zin seem to have fixed by SRIV, at least to an extent), then mass produce and sell them--many gamers (I included) would pay top dollar for something like that! Not to mention the many other potential uses for such a technology, like military training. But for some reason there is only one, at least on Earth, that works. Maybe that's because it's not from Earth.
 
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Hmm, that's an interesting hypothesis. Only Volition knows for sure, though*


*They probably don't know and just say it is because they like the idea
 
Actually, I was just looking in SR4's sr3_city.lua (yes, you read that right, for some reason it says sr3, even though it's sr4) and I found the following code.
Code: 
-- nemo chair node
kinzie_node = SR3_CITY_ship_action_nodes.kinzie[2]
--mesh_mover_update_control( "nemo_rig_kinzie", "is nemo open", true )
--mesh_mover_update_control( "nemo_rig_kinzie", "closed restart", true )
Look at the first line. Wasn't that what the VR chair in SRTT was called? So at least as far as Volition is concerned, it does use the same technology. It also mentions the ship, so it's not just something left over from SRTT. Then again that's just in the game's internal code, so I don't know if it's really canon. Still interesting, though.
Actually, come to think of it, I believe Kinzie did refer to one of the simulation pods in the ship as a "chair", despite it not resembling a chair, so that's likely what she's referring to. It would be cool to get an official answer on this, considering Volition staff do post here.
 
It's almost certainly a converted asset from SRTT to SRIV rather than some weird story conspiracy.
 
Still, that would explain why the NEMO chair wasn't more well-known. Had it been invented on Earth, certainly someone would have mass-produced it. I would love to have something like that, as would (I imagine) so many other gamers. Again, provided they fixed the issue that caused people to go brain dead.

Also, what asset do you think it's referring to. What on the ship opens and closes, and would require action nodes (i.e. not the doors) besides the simulation pods? And if it is referring to the simulation pods, I don't know what asset would have been reused, as they really aren't at all similar in any way except for their (in-universe) function. Or is there something I'm forgetting?
 
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