[Devil]

Are Cryptosense Modules (source:Unwired) only necessary for hackers?

[Halancar]

It might be useful to a rigger too, when he jumps in a vehicle/drone with unusual senses and wants to interpret them directly (although I don't think there's actually a rule regarding that). And anyone who wants to fully experience being a dolphin in simsense I suppose...

[Devil]

What if I have a non-rigger/non-hacker char who has handheld sensors that are skinlinked, his body is skinlinked,  and he has a commlink, cybereyes, and a datajack. I don't need Cryptosense, right?

[Halancar]

Nope. You'll see thermographic/ultrasound/radar translated into a visual picture, you'll even be able to switch from one to the other or see them all at once, without needing a  cryptosense module. Just like watching a radar screen, or an IR camera picture.

For that matter, you didn't even mention a simsense module, and without it the cryptosense one won't work at all...

[Devil]

Thankyou. I'm new to this side of Shadowrun. I appreciate the patience and the answers.

[Valashar]

When one of my players made a fully blind PC mage asked me about their ability to interact with AR and the matrix, I felt that adding a cryptosense module and paying extra for the OS (a special needs build) would allow said sight-lacking person to perceive the matrix through a learned combination of non-visual senses. He chose to have his PC's perception of the matrix be based mainly on sound and texture.