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. Each glove features more than 130 points of tactile feedback, promising far more realistic interactions than those offered by standard vibration and force feedback haptics. This tactile feedback physically displaces your skin up to 2mm, simulating the feeling of touching real objects.
The patented microfluidic skin
consists of hundreds of tiny air channels and bubble-like pneumatic actuators,
embedded in a flexible silicone-based smart textile. When a user hand touches a
virtual object, the SDK determines the contact force and object surface geometry
and turns this into a picture of exactly how your skin would be deformed at
each of 133 points of contact per glove as if the virtual object were a real
object touching their skin.
More information:
https://vrscout.com/news/haptx-true-contact-haptic-gloves-vr/