We’ve already seen a fair share of motion-sensitive gaming peripherals on the market, including the Wii Remote, the PlayStation Move controller and Microsoft’s Kinect device. Still, that isn’t stopping Tactical Haptics from trying something a little new.
Speaking with Mashable, the founder and CEO of the company, William Provancher, explained the benefits of a new virtual reality device called the Reactive Grip. This combination of software and hardware allows players to use a special grip-style controller, pictured above, to experience physical sensations in their game.
With the controller, players can feel the divots in a basketball picking it up, or reaching out for objects that are within the gaming world, such as a sword or a gun. The Reactive Grip recreates the weight and texture of these objects, with a physics engine put together by the company into the device.
“It’s essentially creating a really simple yet effective solution that you have physical interaction with things,” said Provancher. “What you experience is a combination of what’s called a motion component (what you feel in your muscles) and tactile (what you feel in the skin).”
The KickStarter project is still a ways off from its $175,000 goal, but curious fans can check it out here.
Source: Mashable
