![]() ![]() ![]() Suits like this are yet to reach the mainstream -and are rarely seen in public. While a VR headset provides a startlingly real simulation of the world we can see and hear, a full-body haptic feedback suit does the same for the world of touch and sensation - hot and cold, rough and smooth, pleasure and pain. This was just one of the virtual reality displays presented at the SingularityU Summit, held in Sydney last week.Įach time Mr Orr's avatar was hit, the suit delivered a carefully engineered pulse of electrical current to the equivalent area of his physical body, simulating touch – a technology called "haptic feedback".īy varying amplitude, frequency, and amperage, delivered via a fine web of electrodes arrayed over the body, a suit like this can give the wearer a long list of different sensations, called "haptic animations". "We'll let you get hit once more," the emcee says. "I felt that one," Mr Orr tells the audience, his mouth beneath the VR headset fixed in a grin. ![]()
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