Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has made a lot of noise in augmented reality and the world of virtual reality.
The whole idea of ​​ambitious metaverse ranges from AR and VR.
Research Meta Reality Labs has distributed a glance a pair of haptic gloves that will allow you to touch the digital world.
According to blog posts with Meta, the idea is to have light haptic gloves that “overcome the issue of AR / VR interactions – help computers to understand accurately and reflect the movement of the user, and reproduce various complexes, nuances of sensations for users such as pressure, texture, and vibration To create the effect of feeling a virtual object with your hands.
“Blog posts further noted that users will be able to pair it with a VR headset for deep experiences such as playing in concerts or poker games in Metaverse, and – finally – they work with your glasses too.
“Far from just peripheral devices, these gloves will make the virtual world tangible,” Note blog posts.
Haptic gloves need actuators – or small motors – above the hand to give a real touch of touch.
Haptic gloves can even convince the user’s perception system that feels the weight of the object, with gently pulling the skin of the wearer’s finger with the actuator to mimic the gravitational pull on the object held.
But it all must be on time right, write down the blog post.
“Today gloves are made individually by skilled engineers and technicians who produce subsystems and assemble gloves by hand,” said RL Research Process Engineer Katherine Healine.
“We use a semi-automatic process where we can, but the making of these gloves on the scale will require the discovery of a new manufacturing process.” Until now, there were no plans from the company for the commercial launch of haptic gloves because they still remained in the prototype.