William Provancher wants you to get a grip. His startup, Tactical Haptics, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund small-scale production of a new kind of touch feedback game controller, dubbed Reactive Grip. Reactive Grip gives you feedback in both hands.The Reactive Grip gives you much sharper sensations than the aging “rumble” game controllers with …
Dr. William Provancher at the University of Utah builds fantastic toys, like robots that can climb up carpeted walls and gamepads which let players touch a virtual surface. Now, he’s trying to commercialize a game controller that lets you feel virtual objects as if they existed in the real world. His new company Tactical Haptics …
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The traditional idea of a gaming controller is something passive: you use it to tell the game what you want to happen, simple as that. But gaming is really all about interaction. For the most immersive experience possible, when something happens to your character in-game, you want to feel like it’s actually happening to you. …
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A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to interview Dr. William Provancher, Founder of Tactical Haptics. His team has been working on an exciting new controller (the “Reactive Grip” controller) for gamers and VR enthusiasts, and today marks the launch of their Kickstarter!William is back to share the latest details, and highlights some content …
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Reactive Grip is an interesting technology by Tactical Haptics which lets you feel feelback from games in the palm of your hands. The company plans to take their prototype to Kickstarter to raise money for production versions of their controller. They say that motion component of the controller will support Sixense STEM and other trackers. …
Tactical Haptics, a technology startup, is bringing a new breed of touch feedback to market through Reactive Grip™. Their Kickstarter campaign will be used to build a developer and researcher community around creating the most realistic and tangible touch feedback experiences in games and virtual reality. This unique haptic technology will be made available by …
Contest Winner Announced We’re happy to announce the winner of the below contest, who will receive a free Dev Kit next fall. We thank all those that registered on our website and posting your great ideas for what you’d like to do with your Reactive Grip haptic game controller. And the winner of the is …
Reactive Grip is an interesting technology by Tactical Haptics which lets you feel feelback from games in the palm of your hands. The company plans to take their prototype to Kickstarter to raise money for production versions of their controller. They say that motion component of the controller will support Sixense STEM and other trackers…
It has been a while since we acquainted you with Reactive Grip, a motion controller with tactile feedback for playing RPG games with swords or knifes. Since then a lot of improvements have been made to the Reactive Grip since it was first revealed at Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2013 and now it is all …
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