Singapore researchers create VR glove with realistic touch - Mobile News 24x7

Singapore, Jan 18: National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers person created a virtual world (VR) glove– HaptGlove– that volition level up users’ acquisition successful the metaverse with a much realistic consciousness of touch.

The VR mitt is an “untethered and lightweight haptic mitt that provides users with some skin-like and question sensations erstwhile interacting with a virtual object,” the NUS squad said successful a blogpost connected Tuesday.

Even though the conception of haptic gloves is not new, the existing technologies are not capable to springiness users a realistic consciousness of touch.

“VR should not beryllium conscionable astir a ocular and auditory experience, it should contiguous the quality to interact with VR objects. However, existent methods of pressing connected a virtual sheet oregon interacting with different avatar deficiency the sensation of interaction that we acquisition successful the existent world,” said Professor Lim Chwee Teck, manager of the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) and person of the probe team.

“This prompted maine to enactment with my squad to make a haptic mitt to alteration ‘physical’ interaction successful the virtual world,” Teck added.

The caller VR mitt is apt to beryllium a portable and flexible haptic mitt which volition let users to person immersive interaction and consciousness of VR objects with unparalleled realism successful the VR experience.

“The HaptGlove’s unsocial plan allows users to interact with the virtual satellite much people and realistically, which would springiness users unobtrusive recreational oregon competitory sensation successful VR,” Teck said.

HaptGlove has 5 pairs of haptic feedback modules, 1 for each finger, which are controlled wirelessly to consciousness the VR entity successful presumption of shape, size and stiffness.

“Besides gaming, the HaptGlove has utile applications successful the fields of medicine and education, specified arsenic assisting surgeons to amended hole for an cognition by simulating a hyper-realistic environment, oregon giving students a hands-on learning acquisition by simulating palpation connected antithetic assemblage parts,” the NUS squad said.

The researchers person filed a patent for their plan and purpose to commercialise the mitt wrong 2 years.