HAND Engineers Ultra-thin Wearable Lets You ‘Feel’ Textures on a Screen
HAND engineers Sylvia Tan, Michael Peshkin, Roberta Klatzky, and Ed Colgate have developed a major scientific breakthrough with the first haptic device, VoxeLite that achieves “human resolution,” meaning it accurately matches the sensing abilities of the human fingertip.
VoxeLite could transform how people interact with digital environments, including more immersive virtual reality systems, assistive technologies for people with vision impairments, human-robot interfaces and enhanced touchscreens. Read more in the newly published research in ScienceAdvances and articles in Fast Company and Northwestern Now.
VoxeLite could transform how people interact with digital environments, including more immersive virtual reality systems, assistive technologies for people with vision impairments, human-robot interfaces and enhanced touchscreens. Read more in the newly published research in ScienceAdvances and articles in Fast Company and Northwestern Now.
“We designed VoxeLite to be comfortable, so people can wear it for long periods of time without needing to remove it to perform other tasks. It’s like how people wear glasses all day and don’t even think about them”, says Sylvia Tan, Northwestern University.