Immersion integrating ultrahaptics technology with hololens holoanatomy.
One of the limitations of current virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) systems is that while you can visualize and hear the unreal, you can’t feel it, smell it, or taste it. We have three other main senses in addition to sight and hearing, and until they’re all supported, VR and MR will remain limited experiences.
One of the key technologies for supporting our other senses is haptics, the use of vibration or other kinds of force feedback to engage the sense of touch. The resistance in a game steering wheel is one specific kind of haptic feedback system, for example. Microsoft’s HoloLens MR system would of course benefit from haptic feedback, and that’s exactly what French company Immersion is working on, as Reality News reports.
The basic idea is pretty simple. Rather than just seeing an object superimposed on the real world via HoloLens, users would be able to actually reach out and touch it. That would not only significantly enhance the realism of the experience, it would also make manipulating MR objects more precise.
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Source: Yahoo!