A History of Haptics: Electric Eels to an Ultimate Display
HaptX
JANUARY 9, 2018
I was in that headspace when I first held a vibrating video game controller—this was around 1999—and I’d been deeply immersed in the writings of media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who wrote a lot about touch. So we conceptualized ‘haptic media’ fairly broadly, enough that it includes devices like Apple Watch along with Q*bert arcade cabinets.
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