Rendering touch realistically in virtual reality (VR) isn't easy. We've only recently gotten to the point where VR can even recognize hands, let alone create a realistic experience of handling objects ...

Haptic feedback is the obvious next step in immersion for gamers, one step that many engineers have yet to fully crack. Through a collection of devices by Razer and other companies, the gaming ...

Forward-looking: With the next-gen console just around the corner, it's the perfect time to be keeping your eyes on the US Patent Office. Filings don't always get converted into future tech, but they ...

The “absorbed device user” meme, like someone following Google Maps on a smart phone so closely that they walk out into traffic, is becoming all too common. Not only can an interface that requires ...

Actually feeling a hug from your mother or a friend through a video call may become a reality soon if a team of biomedical researchers from City University of Hong Kong and Northwestern University in ...

While sitting on the skin, a compact device that applies force in any direction to generate a variety of sensations. Professors John Rogers, Yonggang Huang, and J. Edward Colgate; Postdoctoral ...

In news we really hope Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t read about, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab has created a new virtual reality (VR) setup that ...

A new haptic device simulates the feel of objects in VR by pulling on strings attached to a hand. The shoulder-mounted system is equipped with spring-loaded retractors like those used on neck cord ID ...