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Feel VR From Your Head To Your Toes Using These Haptic Sneakers

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This month marked the launch of DropLabs’ EP 01 Triple Black , an updated version of the companies previously-released EP 01 haptic sneaker. For devices lacking Bluetooth support, each pair comes with a low latency cable compatible with most standard 3.5mm headphone jacks. .” Image Credit: DropLabs, PRNewsfoto.

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HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics

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HaptX delivers an intuitive wearable haptic device to meet the demanding quality requirements of enterprise customers. HaptX , the San Luis Obispo, CA-based company focused on bringing realistic haptic technology to VR, has released its HaptX Gloves DK2, advanced haptic feedback gloves featuring “true-contact” haptic technology.

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Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $12 Million in New Funding

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HaptX, the company building VR gloves with advanced haptics, this week announced that is has raised $12 million in a Series A-1 investment which will be used to open a new headquarters based in Redmond, WA, and expand its team. The post Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $12 Million in New Funding appeared first on Road to VR.

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HaptX Launches New & Improved DK2 Haptic VR Gloves for Enterprise

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HaptX, the company building high-end haptic VR gloves for enterprises, launched its latest model, DK2, which is now available for purchase. The new version is said to have improved haptics, force-feedback, size, comfort, and manufacturability. As far as VR gloves go, they’re the most convincingly immersive I’ve used yet.

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Oculus Details ‘Buffered Haptics’ for Advanced Haptics on Touch Controllers

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Oculus has added new documentation to their developer knowledge base detailing the ‘buffered haptics’ feature of the Oculus SDK, a method for programming more advanced haptic feedback from the company’s Touch controllers. The SDK supports two approaches to controller haptics, Buffered and Non-buffered.

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The Five Most Interesting VR Haptic Technologies I’ve Seen in the Last Five Years

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Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today’s VR controllers there’s lots of other immersive haptic tech yet to be widely adopted. Each animal had somewhat different haptic properties. A Joystick that Pushes Back.

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This Flexible Thermoelectric Skin Has Made Me a Believer in Thermal Haptics

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Korea-based TEGway is developing ThermoReal , a thermoelectric array which can generate heat and cold with impressively low latency. I’ve tried a few different thermal haptic devices throughout the course of my VR reporting, but nothing that really impressed me. That’s thanks to three things: Latency.

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