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Exoskeleton gloves let you "feel" in VR

Zenbane
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Virtual reality headsets like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift can create realistic virtual worlds, and motion controllers can even let you interact with objects in them. However, this is the part of the VR experience that can feel less than immersive. While you can see all these virtual objects, you can’t feel them. A Chinese company called Dexta Robotics wants to change that with claw-like exoskeleton gloves called Dexmo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sif7cY8qwjM

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/234599-this-exoskeleton-glove-could-let-you-feel-the-shape-of-vir...


I have 2 thoughts on this:

1) While seemingly awesome in its ability to add that next level of "immersion," I'm pretty sure that eventually this could evolve in to a full body suit which means one day someone will be posting an article about the first person to "die irl" from VR.

2) I'm so upset with myself that I never considered this argument during all those HTC Vive debates.
"Oculus sucks, you can't even see your hands in VR."
"Yeah but can you 'feel' the object with the Vive's Nintendo Wands??"

So much missed opportunity...
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Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
Yeh I already posted this. 

https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/comment/430341#Comment_430341

My thoughts are it's too clunky at the moment and the awkward way they are not natively tracked. Still, the concept is good and no doubt has some applications for VR Porn if soft touch can be mimicked. Give this tech 5 more years and maybe it will be awesome.


System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.

Zenbane
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oh crap, sorry. Totally missed that. It's definitely too clunky. Seems more a device for VR Porn lol