HaptX revealed its all-new haptic gloves that they had been working on for a few years now. These haptic gloves apparently lend a unique and one-of-a-kind sense of touch in virtual environments. The product launched by the company is known as HaptX Gloves Development Kit. This product is industrial grade and is perfect if you are looking for advanced simulation in your virtual reality experience.
It can be a life-changing experience for all the professional users of Virtual Reality as it empowers the users to have a realistic touch and a very natural interaction in their simulations. As a VR user, you can easily to reproduce all the real-world feelings and senses with the help of HaptX Gloves Development Kit.
In the words of Jake Rubin, CEO, and Founder of HaptX, “With HaptX Gloves, leading automotive and aerospace companies can touch and interact with their vehicles before they are built, radically reducing time and cost for design iterations. Industrial and government organizations can deploy virtual training solutions that build real muscle memory, providing a safe, cost-effective, and flexible alternative to live training.”
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There are two gloves in the HaptX Gloves Kit that have 130 tactile actuators and some motors that are pressure-sensitive. They can be used to get realistic touch feedback on the fingertips as well as the hand. The technology used by HaptX is microfluidic technology that is patented by HaptX already. It helps to pump fluid, which in turn, offers feedback on the hands and fingers. The motion tracking and feedback of HaptX gloves have a precision of sub-millimeter.
As shared by Mary Hamilton, the Managing Director of Accenture Labs, “The HaptX Gloves Development Kit provides a new level of haptic fidelity and realism. Accenture is looking forward to seeing how HaptX Gloves will enhance the capabilities of VR for human-machine interaction.”
The HaptX Gloves Development Kit was globally launched on October 3rd, 2018 in New York at the Future of Storytelling Summit and in Seattle at the GeekWire Summit. It aims to offer the missing link of realistic touch in VR and hopes to bridge this gap.