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 ...

Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing. As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to ...

Imagine stepping into a virtual world where every touch, grab, and hold feels incredibly real. With Bstick, the handheld haptic VR controller, you can elevate your virtual reality experience to ...

With VR rocketing along into the mainstream it's hard to not think of it as a potential future mainstay for gaming. It's getting better with great immersive screens like Pimax's 8k headsets that ...

A few hundred feet from the sandy shore of Long Beach, California, in the city's convention center, companies are showing off how we'll interact with one another by way of virtual and augmented ...

The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been ...

A new virtual reality controller lets you touch and feel digital objects in the metaverse. Virtual reality platforms are a hot topic right now, so naturally, the demand for gadgets that better the ...

The PS5’s DualSense controller has been praised by many for its innovative and immersive features such as the haptic feedback function and adaptive triggers. According to a recent interview with the ...

VentureBeat: The number of buttons, the number of actuators, is that one thing that will determine how much you can control the feeling? Culbertson: Sure. If we had 200 actuators and they were smaller ...

In 2018 I got to demo a very unique haptic approach from a Japan-based haptics company called MIRAISENS: The prototype 3DHaptics controllers from Miraisens do something that I didn’t previously think ...