Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today’s VR controllers there’s lots of other immersive haptic tech ...

Imagine stepping into a virtual world where every touch, grab, and hold feels incredibly real. With Bstick, the handheld haptic VR controller, you can elevate your virtual reality experience to ...

With VR rocketing along into the mainstream it's hard to not think of it as a potential future mainstay for gaming. It's getting better with great immersive screens like Pimax's 8k headsets that ...

A new virtual reality controller lets you touch and feel digital objects in the metaverse. Virtual reality platforms are a hot topic right now, so naturally, the demand for gadgets that better the ...

A few hundred feet from the sandy shore of Long Beach, California, in the city's convention center, companies are showing off how we'll interact with one another by way of virtual and augmented ...

The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been ...

VentureBeat: The number of buttons, the number of actuators, is that one thing that will determine how much you can control the feeling? Culbertson: Sure. If we had 200 actuators and they were smaller ...

Valve may be looking to cut corners and make VR mass adoption more likely in the process. A new patent has appeared for a new design of Valve’s VR controllers. Valve’s VR product is called the Valve ...

You can build these open source, DIY gloves yourself and use them in Half-Life: Alyx. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For a few ...

Valve's Steam Frame is hitting shelves in early 2026, and it's already looking to be the standalone VR headset to get thanks ...

In 2018 I got to demo a very unique haptic approach from a Japan-based haptics company called MIRAISENS: The prototype 3DHaptics controllers from Miraisens do something that I didn’t previously think ...