SE just make a vanity slot to solve all your issues with this.

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We already have similar commands to a vanity system, well, actually it just disables the helmet visuals (/display head off). We can even disable our main weapon visuals when out of combat. So, your immersion is already being broken.

Wrong.

The weapon visual on/off was to enhance immersion for the swimsuit event.

It seemed ridiculous to players that one had to carry a weapon to the beach - so it was a compromise between making swimsuits seem realistic without sacrificing the armory system.

The helmet visibility toggle was a bad decision in my mind - so you have a point about that breaking immersion.

But even toggling visibility of a helmet is far different from magically transforming all your gear into holograms.

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Still, the Dev's have said they don't want a Vanity system, and I agree, so this thread is moot.

You guys are better off asking for (or making) a client-side, dat-swap add-on if you hate looking at your own gear so much.