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VR Training and Haptics to Boost Railway Operational Safety

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The grant aims to advance research using haptic solutions to create accessible XR applications for visually impaired individuals. HaptX is contributing its microfluidic actuation haptics technology to the research, enabling precise rendering of virtual braille content at the fingertips.

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Haptic Solution to Support XR Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Eye Institute to advance research into using haptic solutions to provide accessible XR applications for visually impaired groups. Are Haptic Gloves Making a Comeback? Are Haptic Gloves Making a Comeback?

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Meta Revives Haptic Feedback Product Portfolio

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Namely, within the XR space, the firm works on many related immersive technologies to boost Meta’s hardware and software offerings, from AI to avatars. Another technology space, Meta, is keen to crack the haptics market. Haptic feedback comes in many hardware forms, such as gloves or controllers.

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HapticVR Technology as a Means to Facilitate Better Surgical Training

ARPost

In the study, haptic feedback technology was used alongside non-haptic immersive VR training to assess the impact of the former. The goal of the study was to assess the educational impact of integrated haptic feedback in an immersive VR bone drilling simulation.

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Facebook Reveals Latest Wrist-worn Prototypes for XR Input & Haptics

Road to VR

Facebook today revealed some of its latest research and vision for a wrist-worn input device that the company expects to form the basis of AR and VR interactions and haptics in the future. The group shared a concept video of what it believes will be possible with the technology. ” Always-on Haptics. Contextual AI.

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Open Haptics Ecosystem: unlock a tremendous value for the haptics market

ARVR

Disclaimer I’m opinionated and loud about Haptics. I'm also host of the Haptics Club and board member of Haptics Industry Forum. Summary: A major upside for the haptics market is locked in the impact of haptics on usages, today unknown. Haptics is hard, everyone says that. No, it is not.

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Interhaptics Partners with Saarland University around the Haptic Design Challenges in Virtual…

ARVR

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. Haptic feedback is not standardized, so its design remains a real challenge.

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