Following our press release a few weeks back, we were lucky enough to get a visit from Norm Chan from Tested.com. See the below video for a review of our new cylindrical controllers, SaberGrip™ and 2-handed SaberGrip™ controllers, as well as our Multi-Pose magnet sockets for Quest’s hand controllers, and new sword fighting and fishing …
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This year, at the Augmented World Expo, we were honored to get a visit from Norm and Jeremy from Tested.com See the below video for a comprehensive review of our Reactive Grip™ controllers.
Tactical Haptics, creators of the ‘Reactive Grip’ controller are due to begin taking dev kit pre-orders on May 29th. Targeting the enterprise and LBE sectors with a release date due in Q4. Since the initial introduction of the controllers years ago, the company has steadily improved performance and introduced a smart redesign that makes them …
Tactical Haptics will launch preorders for its Reactive Grip controller development kit on May 29. The controller uses “haptic feedback” to give you a sense of touch in applications such as virtual reality games. The hope is that the next big frontier for VR technology will be the sense of touch, as the visuals already …
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…Tactical Haptics created a simple 3D printed attachment to mount the Vive controller to the wireless Reactive Grip controller.During demos of the system at VR Launchpad, the company strapped users into the HTC Vive headset and handed them one of the Reactive Grip controllers along with one of the normal Vive controllers in the other …
As Ben Lang says in his interview introduction, Will Provancher is one of the OG’s of virtual reality. Tactical Haptic’s ‘Reactive Grip’ controller was one of the few peripherals shown back at GDC 2013 that aimed to enhance immersion compared with standard input devices. The Road to VR team caught up with Tactical Haptics again …
Touch feedback that’s more nuanced than a simple buzz could make virtual reality more real and cars safer…
I was sweating inside the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Clang. Clang. Buzz. I held two virtual lightsabers, à la Star Wars, in my hands, and I had to fight off blaster-bolt attacks from a flying drone. Clang. Buzz. Buzz. Clang.
As Oculus gets closer to its first consumer Rift model, the pieces are starting to fall into place. With the visual aspects approaching targets thanks to the new Crescent Bay prototype and audio well underway, we wanted to know what the company was planning for an input device. Back at GDC, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey …
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