
David’s seems to connect directly into his skeleton and matches the shape of his spine while the one in game looks significantly smaller and completely different. I’m having a hard time visualizing where this goes on V’s body it doesn’t seem like it would link up the same way David’s did.
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David’s seemed to be a test prototype version, while the one that exists in 2077 is a market version that seems to be more usable to more people, the spinal cord one David had was extremely heavy on the body and mind, to sell it as an actual product they likely had to make it put less stress on the user and less powerful.
Because there was never a description of what a sandevistan looked like, or where exactly it was implanted prior to Edgerunners. They just made one up
It’s not the same model. Made by the same company yes, but David’s was an experimental sandevistan whereas the sandevistans in game aren’t experimental or military grade. According to JGray it only used to be an apogee but is now so heavily modified it isn’t comparable anymore.
Because it’s a comprehensive spine and nervous system implant and I’m assuming that’s just the main processing goober that talks to the rest of the users implants and not the whole thing
Because a “realistic” Sandy would require much more than just a mod to your brain and spine, it would be a whole rework of the human body. So this falls under creative liberties from the creators.
Actually, someone today have posted the same question, and got a very good/reliable answer, dunno from this sub or another one. That’s is the same, and even gave a screenshot from the show itself, but in the show the sandy is connected to a neurolink which is not in the game.
The picture you provided is the sandevistan itself, its small, and you can actually see it in the shot in the tv show when he has it hooked up and is checking out its stats, the spine part is just what makes it connect to your senses or whatev.
you install the red circle into the blue circle and the blue circle into the spine. Red is the sandevistan. Blue is just a spinal neural implant.
https://preview.redd.it/qtcqeq5lz2ve1.png?width=1197&format=png&auto=webp&s=972f94edbf984580b1bfbb76580901b640cd5ef3
Simply put, it’s not the same model as David’s. The devs have spoken on this, David’s sandy and the apogee aren’t the same thing
But, for what it’s worth, David’s sandy basically looks like this too
https://preview.redd.it/fcl5xoer03ve1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fc600f0aad580ce9513ca861eb5ca5492417c2e
Thats just the part that connects to the brain, the spine one could be to reinforce the user spine to handle the load (it was made up for the anime anyway).
https://preview.redd.it/r9oe2g5l73ve1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccb91d6f1e02495fe17e190181fc82bc3bc5f46e
[Here’s the explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/AIljiILlpu)