Haptic technology: The next frontier in video games, wearables, virtual reality, and mobile electronics

Tactile feedback is nothing new. It's been used in telecommunications and in entertainment for decades, and it became a standard feature in the late 1990s in mobile phones and video games – where vibrations alert you to new messages or help you "feel" the forces exerted on your avatar. Haptic technology has been very much a bit player in the fields that it's infiltrated, though, and only now are we seeing it begin to take its place alongside visual and audio tech as a key element in human-computer interaction... Continue Reading Haptic technology: The next frontier in video games, wearables, virtual reality, and mobile electronics



Section: Electronics



Tags: Haptics, Smartphones, Smartwatch, Tactile, Video Games, Virtual Reality, Wearable



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