Tactile feedback is nothing new. It's been used in telecommunications and in entertainment for decades, and it became a standard feature in the late 1990s in mobile phones and video games – where ...

Periodically, researchers want to improve our lives of online shoppers. It is easy to choose colors and sizes of clothes on many websites, but it's impossible to touch the material. So, European ...

The release of Ready Player One this weekend will ignite several conversations about the role of virtual reality in the future. Many of the innovations found in the film and Ernest Cline’s bestseller ...

April 20, 2010 (Landover, Maryland) — New data, presented here at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, suggest that ...

Headlines about new haptic virtual reality kissing technology are making the rounds. But the researchers behind it never once mention kissing. And they didn’t design their experiments with that ...

Haptic feedback technology continues to reshape the virtual reality (VR) landscape by providing users with a tangible sense of touch that augments immersive experiences. Through the integration of ...

Recent advances in scientific research may allow robotic prosthetics and virtual reality simulations to be even more effective than before. Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a new, glove-like ...

Combining VR haptics with conventional tooth preparation exercises in dental education, it is possible to improve students' learning outcomes, according to a new study carried out at the Institute of ...

Simulation and/or virtual reality have proven to be highly effective approaches for training our workforce to operate complex, high-value systems. Today’s latest simulators use technology borrowed ...

Tactile sensation is an incredibly important part of how humans perceive their reality. Haptics or devices that can produce extremely specific vibrations that can mimic the sensation of touch are a ...

A woman uses a HUG (Haptic User Geraet) at the International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics in Munich in 2014. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters) I'm blogging excerpts this week and next week from ...