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TG0 Debuts Buttonless Controllers at AWE 2022

XR Today - Virtual Reality

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. New Ways to Control the Metaverse.

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These VR Gloves Track Your Fingers & Electrically Stimulate for Haptic Feedback

Road to VR

AI SILK is a Japanese wearable-tech startup that’s set to unveil a new haptic glove at CES 2023 next month which approaches both haptic feedback and finger-tracking in a different way altogether. Image courtesy AI SILK.

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Could Haptic Gloves Replace Controllers?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

What haptic gloves provide is an evolution from a traditional XR controller input with a joystick. The technology elevates the overall user experience and adds value via realistic simulated feelings of pressure, weight, texture, and heat. There are other forms of haptic feedback devices outside of haptic gloves.

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The Best VR Gloves in 2024: Harnessing Haptic Feedback

XR Today - Virtual Reality

VR gloves are a wearable XR accessory designed to enhance immersion with spatial computing capabilities and sensory feedback. Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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How does Virtual Reality Work? The Ultimate Guide

XR Today - Virtual Reality

An Introduction Virtual reality creates an end-to-end mechanism that replaces our natural “real-world” environment with an immersive simulation. It creates a simulated environment you can effectively interact with. Today’s virtual reality solutions don’t just include a headset, display, and motion controllers.

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Mechanical Backpack Makes Jumping In VR More Fun

VRScout

.” Pedro Lopes , an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago who focuses on integrating interfaces with the human body by exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables, wants to make jumping in VR a more enjoyable experience.

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Scientists Develop Artificial Skin That Allows You To Feel In VR

VRScout

According to an article published last week to the journal of Soft Robotics , scientists based out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed a skin-like material that, when worn over a users’ body, simulates a far more realistic sense of touch than that of current haptic feedback technologies.

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