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Are Haptic Gloves Making a Comeback?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This week, Fluid Reality debuted a haptic glove solution, which introduces a range of competitive features to the fledging XR accessories marketplace that sees haptic glove solutions present benefits in healthcare, automation, and training use cases – despite the haptic market appearing somewhat dormant in 2023.

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Haptics in VR gaming with Alex Meland (Haptics Club #1)

ARVR

The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Alex Meland is a Community Manager at bHaptics , and passionate about the world of haptics. bHaptics is a company that specialized in full-body haptic suits. Alex Meland is a Community Manager at bHaptics , and passionate about the world of haptics.

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Developing Better Haptics With Interhaptics

ARPost

When you think about “haptics,” particularly in the sense of extended reality , you probably think about hardware and wearables that let you interact with and feel your environment. Haptics require hardware but they also require software. If you want to provide haptics in your application, you have to code for haptics. “If

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Can Augmented Reality Shorten the Learning Curve?

ARPost

Burgeoning technologies like augmented reality are some of the prime drivers of innovation. Augmented Reality in Healthcare. Instead of relying on expensive surgical dummies, doctors can practice anywhere and anytime they want with a VR headset and a haptic device like the HaptX Gloves.

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The Best Augmented Reality Accessories for AR Immersion

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Augmented reality accessories are intuitive tools, add-ons, and extras designed to enhance user experiences when adopting smart glasses and AR headsets. Demand for these solutions is increasing as the market for augmented reality continues to grow, predicted to reach a value of $1,109.71 billion by 2030.

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New Apple Patents Cover “Micro-gesture” XR Input, Head-worn Haptics to Guide User Attention

Road to VR

Another newly granted patent covers the use of head-worn haptics as a means of directing the user’s attention toward virtual objects which are out of sight. The haptics would be used, in some way, to turn the user’s attention to one side or the other in order to draw their gaze toward something. Image courtesy Apple.

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Interhaptics & Kalank are collaborating to enhance the augmented reality (AR) mobile gaming…

ARVR

Interhaptics & Kalank are collaborating to enhance the augmented reality (AR) mobile gaming experience with haptics Nowadays, almost everybody has a smartphone. We have already approached the subject of the impact of haptic feedback in the user experience in a previous article, which you can find here. ExpiCulture?—?Developing