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HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves

Charlie Fink

HaptX, makers of force-feedback VR gloves, announced today they are ready to ship their advanced force feedback gloves. Consumer Tech /consumer-tech Innovation /innovation Consumer Tech /consumer-tech Business /business technology

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BeBop Sensors to Showcase Oculus Quest Compatible Forte Data Glove at CES 2020

Peter Graham

BeBop Sensors has been demonstrating its latest Forte Data Glove iteration at technology show CES for the past several years and next week’s event is no different. BeBop Sensors claims the Forte Data Glove has a sub-6 millisecond response time and all-day battery life.

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Hands-on: HaptX Glove Delivers Impressively Detailed Micro-pneumatic Haptics, Force Feedback

Road to VR

The company formerly known as AxonVR , which has raised more than $5 million in venture capital, is rebranding to HaptX, and revealing a feature prototype of a VR glove which uses micro-pneumatics for detailed haptics and force feedback to the fingers. Meeting with HaptX co-founder Jake Rubin in Silicon Valley earlier this month, I got to try the latest prototype of the company’s wild-looking haptic VR glove—a monstrous piece of equipment hooked up to some massive cabling.

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Startup Behind Ambitious HalfDive Headset Launches New Kickstarter for VR Haptic Gloves

Road to VR

Diver-X, the Japan-based startup known for pitching an ambitious VR headset earlier this year, is at it again, this time with a pair of VR gloves that incorporates a membrane capable of flexing and compressing to replicate the sensation of touch.

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Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest

VRScout

The glove-like accessory allows standalone VR users to feel virtual objects. In January of 2018, BeBop Sensors debuted its Forte Data Glove at the annual Consumer Electronics Showcase in Las Vegas, Nevada, during which the company showcased its “smart fabric” technology simuating the sensation of touch while in a virtual space; put simply, the high-tech gloves allow users to “feel” virtual objects while immersed in a VR experience.

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HaptX Scores New Capital and Strategic Partner To Commercialize Haptic Data Gloves

Charlie Fink

The fund will be used to finance production and marketing of the company's high-end XR gloves

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CES 2020 Interview: Bebop Sensors has got the Touch

Peter Graham

If you’ve been following VRFocus’ previous coverage of CES 2020 then you’ll know that hands and more specifically gloves had a definite presence during this year’s show.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

HaptX Ready To Ship Enterprise Data Gloves. HaptX, makers of force-feedback VR gloves, announced today they are ready to ship their advanced force-feedback gloves, dubbed the DK2 (Developer Kit 2). W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Manus Brings Your Entire Body Into VR With its Polygon System

Peter Graham

Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon. Compatible with Manus’ range of Prime gloves, Polygon supports multiple users either locally or via an existing network so colleagues can share a virtual workspace. The new range of Manus Prime gloves arrived in 2019, with three models for tracking users hand gestures.

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VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk

ARPost

A question regarding other third-party VR technology, including data gloves, was brought up in a Q&A segment when users asked about hand tracking gloves. “ Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”.

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The Fathers Of Virtual Reality-a post about VR on Fathers Day.

Cats and VR

In any case, before then, he had set up VPL Research – an organization which spearheaded research into virtual reality and 3D illustrations which likewise sold the intitail virtual reality apparatus, for example, virtual reality glasses, data gloves and later, the full data suit. It is hard to state with any assurance who the father of virtual reality is, as like any new creation it draws upon a wide range of sources and impacts, including several women innovators.

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Manus VR brings full arm tracking to HTC Vive.

Cats and VR

The Manus is the first consumer data-glove specifically designed for virtual reality. It tracks hand movement using a combination of high-tech sensors all contained inside the glove. For now, the HTC Vive brings you the most immersive right out of the box VR experience out of any on the market HMD due to its excellent motion controls. As we are now looking at a time when a quality VR experience is achievable on a consumer level, more and more immersion is desired.

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Augmented Reality May Be The Future, But It Still Has Major Limitations

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality. Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. So we decided to gather three of the biggest AR visionaries and product makers to show us the path to the future at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event last week.

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Hands-On With Valve’s Knuckles Prototype Controllers

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

That physicality is something you don’t get from data gloves, or vision based inputs without any device, and that feeling can then be fine-tuned with haptic feedback. Plus, you’re not passing around a sweaty data glove between your friends. There’s a possibility for gestural movements to call functions and navigate dense data; there could be an entire language built out of using your hands to manipulate paint brushes and pencils and sizes and colors.

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Hands-On: Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Is A Serious Improvement, Pre-Orders Now Shipping

VRScout

When talking with Sullivan, he informed me that the HoloLens 2 does have the capability of giving users a digital haptic experience through third-party devices such as BeBops Sensors Forte Data Glove. . Just one afternoon with the mixed reality headset and I’m already in love. It’s finally here! Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 has officially begun shipping to pre-order customers at the cost of $3,500.

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Oculus Quest’s Hand Tracking Could be its New Killer Feature

Peter Graham

Hand tracking has always been one of those options that sound nice in principle, but would you actually pay for it, adding a Leap Motion device or something a little more extravagant like a data glove? There were several announcements at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) this year that could have taken the top spot.

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Dream On: Aerosmith and 90’s VR

VRScout

On his desk, a VR headset and glove. Donning his headset and glove, he inspects his hands and shows off the full range of functions that the glove provides. Bearing physical similarities to other 90’s data gloves, he is given full hand and finger tracking as well as gesture control of the user interface. Pegasus flying out of a giant, red, spinning asterisk. Known as the Star of Affinity, this asterisk is the iconic logo of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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How Immersive Learning Empowers Students and Teachers Alike

Veative

Designers of these projects used various peripheral devices such as head-mounted display gear, data gloves, and body suits for a fully immersive learning experience. Teachers can track student understanding of the topics being taught, using analytics and the reporting of student data from within the VR environment.

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#BuildYourNorthStar Workshop Brings AR to Life in 48 Hours

Leapmotion

He had experience building homebrew data gloves and mocap systems for years before discovering Leap Motion. Building the world’s most advanced augmented reality headset isn’t exactly for beginners. But at the world’s first #BuildYourNorthStar workshop, over 20 participants built their own open-source Project North Star headsets in just 48 hours – using components now available to everyone. The workshop took place in Sunnyvale, CA, just after AWE. It was hosted by Polaris AR.

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China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025

The Ghost Howls

So, we are not only talking about manufacturing headsets but also about innovating the technologies for what concerns chips, screens, UX, 3D modeling, motion capture, data processing, positional tracking, localization, etc… Regarding headsets, the ministry clearly sets the goals: 30 PPD (Pixels Per Degree) 100Hz+ refresh-rate Varifocal/multifocal display , to solve the vergence-accommodation issue Micro-displays (OLED or LCD) , or light-field display A thin and light device.

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CES 2020 Hands-on: Getting to Grips With HaptX

Peter Graham

Outside of gaming companies are developing new tactile solutions giving users even greater sensory feedback, one of which is HaptX and its microfluidic gloves. HaptX partnered the gloves with an HTC Vive Pro and a very basic VR demo involving a farmyard scene.

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Going (Literally) Hands-on With Manus Prime Haptic Gloves

Peter Graham

One of the biggest names in the VR data glove field is Manus VR, and VRFocus recently got to test its new flagship product, Manus Prime Haptic. In its current line-up the company has four products for various use cases, starting with the entry-level Manus Prime One for basic finger tracking, the Manus Prime Xsens; designed for integration into an Xsens motion capture suit, the OptiTrack Hybrid Gloves for use with Optitrack systems and finally the Manus Prime Haptic.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

They created many VR devices including, the Data Glove, the EyePhone, and the Audio Sphere. When they licensed the data glove to Mattel to create the Power Glove, this is one of the first instances of an affordable VR device that was readily available to the general public, costing just $75 USD. . Data glove and high-resolution goggles were used to view the experience.

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Dexmo force feedback gloves show the future of hands presence in VR

The Ghost Howls

One of the most interesting encounters I had in my trip to Beijing has been with Dexta Robotics , the company behind the Dexmo force-feedback glove s. So, here you are a very long deep dive into Dexmo gloves and my experience with them. Making a Chinese heart with my hands while wearing Dexta Robotics’s Dexmo Gloves. Just look at the gloves and not at my face: I seem an idiot in this photo… Dexta Robotics. Features of Dexmo gloves (Image by Dexta Robotics).

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