Road to VR
JANUARY 11, 2019
Switzerland-based Foldaway Haptics is building a haptic joystick with force feedback. Over the years we’ve seen some really awesome haptic tech, like the HaptX glove that offers compelling tactile sensations and force-feedback on all five fingers. That makes Foldaway Haptics’ solution quite interesting.
VRScout
OCTOBER 1, 2019
The self-sensing material forms to a user’s body, providing next-level haptic feedback. Referred to as “Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin,” the device is composed of a stretchable material only 500 nanometers thick, allowing it to form to a users body.
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Road to VR
MAY 17, 2018
They can choose between several different skydiving locations—like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland—where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience. The post Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation appeared first on Road to VR. Photo by Road to VR. First, the setup.
VRScout
MARCH 20, 2021
To bring a more organic and natural typing experience into VR, a group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich , Switzerland have developed a set of wristbands called TapID that—when combined with hand tracking—allows you to “feel” the keys of your virtual keyboard as you type.
VRScout
JUNE 4, 2022
During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Omar Sultan Al Olama, a Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the United Arab Emirates, talked about some of these concerns. Haptic feedback lets you feel it when someone touches you in a virtual environment.
AllThingsVR
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises $2.5M, Oculus Acquires Computer Vision company Zurich Eye & HTC Unveils a $1.5B Fund 1) Tactical Haptics announced that it raised $2.2M–roughly roughly $1.5M from private investors and $749,000 in a grant from the U.S. Read more on UploadVR.
ARVR
JANUARY 10, 2022
The captured sensory inputs were: sight, audition, gustation, olfaction, and somatic (touch, position and movement, and haptic sensations). Acla Colani around 1928, by unknown Location The self-experiment was conducted in an old stone hut built around 1880 by a local hunter called Gian-Marchet Colani in the Roseg Valley, Switzerland.
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