Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The post Researchers Electrically Stimulate Muscles in Haptic Designed for Hands-free AR Input appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2021

A new experiment shows how haptic vibrations can have a dramatic impact on VR locomotion. Location-based entertainment ups the ante even further, offering dedicated playspaces complete with haptic technology that allow players to physically interact with the in-game world.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2023

Then there’s Fundamental Surgery, an immersive training platform from FundamentalVR that uses VR technology and haptics to provide everyone from medical students to professional surgeons with realistic simulations of various real-life procedures. ” For more information about FundamentalVR and Haply Robotics visit here. .

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VRScout

MARCH 20, 2021

Those sensors are used to detect the rapid touch of your fingertips hitting a physical flat surface to provide haptic feedback as you type out words on a virtual keyboard. To see just how effective TapID could be in a virtual environment, the research team recruited 18 participants to test their wristband technology.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Combined with the right accessories, such as noise-cancelling headsets with spatial sound capabilities and haptic feedback controls, VR headsets can essentially transport employees into a world of their own. Fortunately, VR offered a solution.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Their Fundamental Surgery platform, which also uses HaptX technology to provide realistic haptic feedback during a VR simulation, lets you have that important “hands-on” training that looks and feels real, almost as if you were standing in the operating room. If you’re going to make a mistake, this is the environment to do it.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2018

Instead the VR experience is delivered through the sense of touch; using haptic gloves that give you the ability to feel artwork through physical feedback. Normally touching isn’t allowed in an art gallery, but using a haptic glove would break that barrier and bring an entirely new layer to the art experience.

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EON Reality

OCTOBER 18, 2023

EON Reality and Microtube Technologies partner to provide immersive haptic experiences. Users can expect to interact with virtual avatars or digital objects, such as raindrops on their hands, feeling the beating of a heart or even a firm handshake. “Our Photo Credit: Microtube Technologies Pte Ltd.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

SenseGlove, a Dutch-based producer of VR haptic gloves, has revealed an early prototype of their second glove, the SenseGlove Nova. SenseGlove’s first glove was called the DK1 and were tethered haptic gloves that use an exoskeleton attached to each finger for the force-feedback. Cas & Chary Present. Motion Tracking.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2019

Whether it be remote telerobotics with real-time interactivity, or realistic touch in car design , it seems as though the advanced haptic glove is finding a home in just about every field, including healthcare. The healthcare industry is at the forefront of this shift, and it’s set to be transformed by advancements in VR and haptics.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

.” To understand the technology better, here is a quick introduction to the top Metaverse components, ideas, and technologies: Metaverse Avatars are a user’s digital embodiment in a virtual environment or game world, and may include hyper-realistic 3D representations powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Decentraland.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Using a combination of VR and haptic feedback technology, the program immerses players, both amateur and pro, in a virtual environment where they can participate in a variety of realistic drills and challenges designed to improve their “read and react” capabilities.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

Interhaptics Partners with Saarland University around the Haptic Design Challenges in Virtual Reality (VR) Interhaptics and Saarland University ’s HCI Lab and UMTL teams are collaborating to study and better understand the process of designing haptic feedback.

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VRScout

MARCH 22, 2019

Manus VR, best known for their cutting-edge haptic feedback VR gloves , have been using their proprietary tech in a variety of fields for years, influencing everything from motion capture and automobile production, to immersive gaming and healthcare. With our experience in virtual reality we feel like we can make a difference.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2022

We’ve already seen several reports of women coming forward to report that they were virtually groped while visiting a VR social platform. It’s possible to feel threatened by other people in a virtual experience. Haptic feedback lets you feel it when someone touches you in a virtual environment. Credit: Meta.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2020

The lack of any haptic feedback makes it significantly more difficult to grasp objects than with a controller; grab too loosely and the object falls from your hand, tighten your grip too much and you’ll send it flying across the map when it clips through your player model. It definitely takes some getting used to at first.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 6, 2022

At the Augmented World Expo (AWE 2022) last week, extended reality (XR) human-machine interface (HCI) technology developers TG0 showcased its button-free virtual reality (VR) controllers designed for immersive gaming and Metaverse experiences. Alternatively, many XR firms provide advanced haptics to increase immersion in digital experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

The Dexmo force-feedback glove is an exoskeleton that you wear to have true fingers presence in any virtual environment. It can be used both with a standard screen or an AR/VR headset, but I think that virtual reality is where this device really shines. Dexmo haptic feedback. Force-feedback. Dexmo fingers tracking.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. What should be considered while planning to include haptics in a VR training solution? ? Why should you include haptics in your VR training solution? ? Application maturity. Skills transfer.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The crew strapped on their headsets and haptic feedback equipment and began their round of Zombie Outbreak , one of Zero Latency’s free-roam co-op experiences. Little did she know that dozens of her friends and family were secretly waiting in the shadows ready to surprise her after Alex proposed while in-game.

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AR Insider

MARCH 22, 2021

This week, Facebook Reality Labs goes haptic, VR training and SXSW updates. For AR smart glasses to work as an all-day everyday device, AI and haptics need to be work with advanced optics within a new OS and user interface. Surreal Events launched Surreal, a virtual event platform for live experiences across industries.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2021

An avatar is the 3D representation of the user in the virtual world. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). This is a virtual reality environment, delimited by 3 to 6 walls. To create the VR environment, projectors display the elements of the world on the walls. Degrees of Freedom (DoF).

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects. There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2019

As players progress through the experience, gunning down enemy aircraft on the hunt for Thanos’ personal ship, their virtual environment will change and react to the real-world motions of the car. “If the car turns a tight corner, the player curves around an opposing spaceship in virtual reality.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 5, 2022

Comfortable VR headsets with high-quality displays allow us to step into virtual environments for longer, without feeling nauseous or overwhelmed due to issues associated with visual lag. 5. Haptic Feedback. Haptic feedback is an exciting concept in the XR space today. 6. The Metaverse.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2016

Striker VR’s ARENA Infinity is a haptic VR gun which can simulate various weapon fire modes and other haptic effects. Aimed at the Digital Out-of-Home VR sector, the wireless peripheral has on-board haptics based on a linear actuator.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2018

Whole experiences are built around immersing the eyes in headsets to explore virtual environments. We created Canetroller, a haptic cane controller that simulates [assistive] cane interactions, enabling people with visual impairments to navigate a virtual environment by transferring their cane skills into the virtual world.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

I had a chance to try out a demo of the VR PTSD Exposure Therapy project during a reception at USC ICT during the IEEE VR 2017 conference in Los Angeles in March, and was struck by their holistic multi-modal approach of using subwoofers, smells, and passive haptic guns.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2024

By default you’ll be greeted with the view of your own room when you put on the headset (rather than being whisked away to a fully virtual environment). They’re compact, reasonably high-quality, have decent haptics, capacitive sensing on the thumbsticks and buttons, and excellent battery life.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 24, 2019

It also provides haptic feedback systems in order to simulate the real tissue. VR has helped in creating virtual environments for patients recovering from brain injuries. In dental care , professionals use a 3D IOS scanning system to generate dental abutments. XR offers simulated needle placements useful for training purposes.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Choose the wrong one and you’ll receive a little shock thanks to the The VOID’s haptic vests. . The developers claim this first objective exists to assist users in acclimating to their new virtual environment by allowing them to perform a series of simple interactions using their own two hands.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

To carry out this research, t he researchers have built a mini VR setup for flies , with a mini treadmill and a projection of a virtual environment around them. Virtual Reality may affect the own perception of gender. haptics) can affect our perception of gender. It turns out that flies have a VR setup better than mine.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

VR remote collaboration solutions are those that place a user and/or their avatar into an immersive virtual environment. FundamentalVR is a full 6-degree-of-freedom and haptics-enabled VR solution specifically targeted at the medical industry. A Note on Some Platforms We Left Off the List. FundamentalVR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

In the pre-mission setup phase, players are outfitted with a VR backpack PC, haptic vest, hand and foot trackers, and a VR gun peripheral. Haptics from the vest and the gun pack a significantly greater punch than what than the the rumble found in consumer VR controllers. Photo by Road to VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

With XR technologies, we can connect remote learners in a virtual environment designed to recreate a physical classroom, or allow them to traverse environments they couldn’t access in-person. Students can work and learn together in virtual environments as though they were there in person.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In particular, they’ll do this by leveraging IMAX’s proprietary modular “Pod” design to bring an experience that is optimized for full-body interaction in a virtual environment in both single and multi-user mode.

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