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Virginia Tech, University of Florida, HaptX win $1.5M NSF grant to create full-body haptic feedback for VR and robotics

HaptX

Blacksburg, Virginia and San Luis Obispo, California – A research team including Virginia Tech, University of Florida and HaptX won a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a new platform with an ambitious goal: the world’s first system for full-body haptic and force feedback for users in virtual environments.

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Moving Virtual Objects Like a Jedi

Tech Trends VR

In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in Virtual Reality. It was only a matter of time.

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