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VR Training and Haptics to Boost Railway Operational Safety

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Recently, HaptX partnered with immersive learning solutions provider RoundTable Learning to deploy VR training to railway workers. The partners are working with BNSF to provide railway engineers with an immersive step-by-step training platform to improve engineer safety.

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Meta Revives Haptic Feedback Product Portfolio

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Another technology space, Meta, is keen to crack the haptics market. It is a space early in its development yet key in providing advanced levels of immersion, input, and feedback during enterprise operations such as training sessions. Haptic feedback comes in many hardware forms, such as gloves or controllers.

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The Best VR Gloves in 2024: Harnessing Haptic Feedback

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the last few years, there’s been less hype around VR gloves and haptic accessories in the extended reality space. However, as the adoption of virtual reality grows in the business landscape for training, product development, and collaboration, this is beginning to change. What are VR Gloves Used for?

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SenseGlove Nova VR Haptic Gloves Are Straight Out Of ‘Ready Player One’

VRScout

CES 2021 continues to deliver with the reveal of SenseGlove’s motion tracking haptic gloves. Haptic feedback specialists SenseGlove this week unveiled the SenseGlove Nova, the latest iteration of its force-feedback exoskeleton capable of simulating everything from shapes and impact to stiffness and resistance in VR.

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HaptX Launches True-Contact Haptic Gloves For VR And Robotics

VRScout

HaptX delivers an intuitive wearable haptic device to meet the demanding quality requirements of enterprise customers. HaptX , the San Luis Obispo, CA-based company focused on bringing realistic haptic technology to VR, has released its HaptX Gloves DK2, advanced haptic feedback gloves featuring “true-contact” haptic technology.

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Coming Product From Valkyrie Industries Could Put Haptics on Double Duty

ARPost

Usually, when people talk about haptics we’re talking about making interactions more realistic or immersive. However, as VR develops as a fitness tool, haptics can take on a whole new dimension. Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) uses controlled electrical impulses applied to the muscles, typically in physical training.

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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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