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Ubisoft to Support Haptic Vest in ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’, But No Word Yet...
Earlier this month Ubisoft announced a new brand deal with haptic clothing creator OWO, which produces a thin and light shirt featuring electrode-based haptics. Strangely enough, the partnership isn’t...
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SenseGlove Raises €3.25M in Series A Funding Round to Advance VR Haptic Gloves
SenseGlove, a Netherlands-based creator of XR haptic gloves, has secured €3.25 million (~$3.5 million) in a series A funding round, something the company says will be used to accelerate its...
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Razer Launches Free Haptic Authoring Tool for Quest, PS5, & More
Razer, the popular peripheral company, today announced the free release of the Interhaptics haptic authoring tool which is designed to make it faster and easier for developers to create compelling...
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The Five Most Interesting VR Haptic Technologies I’ve Seen in the Last Five...
Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today’s VR controllers there’s lots of other immersive haptic tech...
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HaptX’s Latest Haptic Gloves Are Smaller and Cheaper, But Still Bulky and...
HaptX, the company known for its haptic gloves, today announced it’s launching pre-orders for HaptX Gloves G1, a cheaper and more refined haptic glove device that’s squarely targeted at businesses. The...
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HaptX Launches New & Improved DK2 Haptic VR Gloves for Enterprise
HaptX, the company building high-end haptic VR gloves for enterprises, launched its latest model, DK2, which is now available for purchase. The new version is said to have improved haptics,...
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bHaptics Announces Pre-orders for TactSuit X Series Haptic Vests, Starting at...
bHaptics, the South Korea-based startup making haptic accessories for VR, today opened pre-orders for two new versions of its TactSuit haptic vests. Starting today, you can put your money down on two...
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HaptX Secures $1.5M Grant to Build Full-body Haptics for VR & Telepresence...
The company behind the force feedback haptic gloves HaptX and research teams from Virginia Tech and University of Florida have secured a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF),...
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Military Contractor ECS Awarded Grant to Build VR Army Medic Trainer with...
Military contractor, Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS), has received a grant from the federal Small Business Innovation Research program—likely ranging from $500,000 to $1.5 million—to pilot...
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Wireality is an Experimental Haptic Feedback Device Using Shoulder-mounted...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers published a paper recently that proposes a novel VR haptic feedback device, which unlike strictly hand-worn haptic devices, lets you feel objects in VR with a...
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Hands-on: Experiencing Shock & Awe with Teslasuit’s Electro-stimulation Haptics
Teslasuit is a London-based company that makes an enterprise-focused haptic suit like none other I’ve experienced thus far. I got a chance to go hands-on at CES 2020 this week to find out just what...
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Hands-on with TEGway’s VR Thermal Haptics Dev Kit, Launching in March
Korea-based TEGway, developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. We got...
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Feelreal VR Scent Mask Hits Roadblock Amidst Crackdown on Flavored Vaping...
Although the Feelreal scent mask for virtual reality isn’t a nicotine vaping system or e-cigarette, it does vaporize aromatic liquids for user inhalation, which according to the company puts it in same...
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Ultrahaptics Relaunches as ‘Ultraleap’ After Leap Motion Acquisition
Leap Motion, the optical hand-tracking firm, was acquired by Bristol, UK-based haptics company Ultrahaptics earlier this year. Now, Ultrahaptics is relaunching under a new name created to reflect its...
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Tactical Haptics to Open Pre-orders for ‘Reactive Grip’ Dev Kits on May 29th
Tactical Haptics, creators of the ‘Reactive Grip’ controller are due to begin taking dev kit pre-orders on May 29th. Targeting the enterprise and LBE sectors, the company expects pricing to start at...
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Tactical Haptics to Bring ‘Production-Ready’ Haptic VR Controllers to GDC 2019
Tactical Haptics has been working on a unique haptic controller design since its founding in 2013. While we’ve seen a number of prototypes over the years, the company is getting ready to show what it...
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Haptic VR Gun Accessory ‘ForceTube’ Headed to Kickstarter Later This Month
ProTubeVR, the Marseilles, France-based makers of the titular VR gunstock accessory, is hoping to make a splash later this month with a Kickstarter campaign for a new haptic devkit that promises to...
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Foldaway Haptics is Making a Thumbstick for VR Controllers That Pushes Back
Switzerland-based Foldaway Haptics is building a haptic joystick with force feedback. The impressive device, which can push back against your finger in any direction, could bring rich feedback to VR...
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Feelreal Wants to Add Smell & Haptics to Your VR Headset, Kickstarter Coming...
You might have caught a glimpse of the Feelreal mask prototype when it made headlines back at GDC 2015, the smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that promised to bring plenty of scents to your...
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HapTech is Aiming its Electromagnetic Haptics at Military VR Training
HapTech aiming its impressive electromagnetic recoil system toward military VR training. The company recently demonstrated how their haptic tech can scale all the way up to the Browning M2, a mounted...
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