25 January 2023 · What’s New in Electronics
The Australian trade title described the HaptGlove as an untethered, lightweight glove that gives people skin-like sensations of touch and movement in virtual reality. It explains the problem it solves: most haptic gloves rely on vibration, which cannot convey hardness or shape, and pneumatic ones have tended to be bulky.
The HaptGlove has a haptic module for each finger, controlled wirelessly, which presses on the fingertip and limits how far the finger can close, to convey an object’s shape and stiffness. There is less than 20 milliseconds between what users see and what they feel, and the glove weighs 250 grams. In a test, 20 users sorted balls of different stiffness with over 90% accuracy. The NUS team planned to commercialise it through Microtube.
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