This Real-Life Cyberpunk 2077 Jacket Brings Night City Fashion to Reality

It seems like screens are everywhere these days. They are on our walls, in our pockets, strapped to our wrists, and sometimes even embedded in our eyewear. One of the last few places you will almost never find a screen is in clothing. That’s probably a good thing, but Jonas Zibartas wanted to try it out for himself to be certain. Inspired by the high-tech, neon-drenched aesthetic of Cyberpunk 2077, he set out to recreate the game's iconic NUSA Infiltrator bomber jacket — complete with a fully functioning digital display built right into the collar.

The display is composed of four flexible OLED panels originally designed for folding smartphones and tablets. The paper-thin displays wrap around the jacket’s oversized collar, creating a glowing animated band that can play synchronized video loops. Although the panels are bendable, they are also quite fragile. They can curve along a fixed radius, but twisting or sharp bends can permanently destroy the delicate internal conductors. Zibartas learned that lesson the expensive way after an early soft-foam prototype snapped one of the $300 screens during assembly.

To prevent further disasters, he engineered a rigid internal support structure that controls how the collar flexes. The displays sit inside tiny slotted tracks rather than being glued in place, allowing them to slide microscopically as the jacket moves. Custom 3D-printed end caps also limit how sharply the ribbon cables can bend, protecting the most vulnerable parts of the system from neck and shoulder movement.

The latest Raspberry Pi boards could technically power all the screens, but their newer video-decoding pipeline struggled with multiple synchronized video outputs. Counterintuitively, the solution to this problem was downgrading to Raspberry Pi 4 boards. That allowed Zibartas to exploit quirks in the older hardware decoder to stretch a single video feed across two displays per computer.

Even with that working, synchronization between the left and right sides wasn’t easy. An initial Ethernet-based networking setup introduced enough latency to make the displays drift visibly out of sync. The final solution was to use a direct GPIO connection between the two computers. One Raspberry Pi sends electrical signals directly into the second board’s GPIO pins, triggering frame-accurate playback without the delays caused by traditional networking protocols.

The jacket was modeled digitally in fashion design software called CLO 3D using reference assets from Cyberpunk 2077 to replicate the game’s silhouette and proportions. Beyond the animated collar, the build also includes illuminated shoulder armor with diffused resin lighting, custom vinyl graphics, and a faux rear-mounted computing deck complete with glowing status indicators.

Despite all the hardware hidden beneath the fabric, the finished piece remains comfortably wearable. The heavier components, including dual battery banks and the Raspberry Pi systems, are mounted low along the back to distribute weight evenly and preserve mobility.

Whether or not there is any demand for a jacket with a TV in the collar remains to be seen. But for cosplaying, Zibartas’ creation is second to none.