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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Sneak Peek at New Reactive Grip™ Motion Controller We’ve been working hard this summer and are nearly ready to unveil our new Reactive Grip™ Motion Controller. In preparation for Kickstarter, we’ve taken all the comments we’ve heard while demoing our previous controller at GDC, and other conferences and meetups, and have used this feedback to …
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Reactive Grip™ SDK & Software Support We intend to support the use of our Reactive Grip™ Motion Controllers with an SDK for use with Unity 3D and C++. Developers will also be provided with example code for several of our current device demos.
“My guest in this episode is William Provancher, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah, and the founder and CEO of Tactical Haptics. We discuss his amazing haptic controllers, how they work, and how they are going to change the way we interact with our VR environments.” Listen on Stitcher
Naysayers will tell you that motion gaming is a gimmick; it doesn’t appeal to the hardcore crowd, and no one can make real games that support the tech. But don’t forget: More than 100 million people were perfectly okay spending a couple hundred bucks on a Nintendo Wii so they didn’t have to drive anywhere …
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“On today’s episode I talk about Haptic feedback for virtual reality with Professor William Provancher, director of the Haptics and Embedded Mechatronics Laboratory at the University of Utah and founder of Tactical Haptics.” Listen Here (MP3)
Will’s Tactical Haptics presentation and Q&A is from 23:53 to 48:22, and some of our demos from the open demo session at the SVVR meetup are also shown at 51:10, 52:10, and demos with Cymatic Bruce are shown at 52:48 to the end.
