SenseGlove Nova 2 provides palm strain suggestions to the enterprise drive suggestions VR glove.
Gloves are thought-about the eventual final type of digital actuality enter. Most “VR gloves” merely characteristic vibration motors on every finger, however drive suggestions gloves just like the Nova collection go additional by really proscribing the motion of your fingers in response to a digital object or floor.
The unique Nova shipped in late 2021 at $5000, and the brand new Nova 2 will increase the worth to $6000. Which will sound like rather a lot, however that is really cheaper than most different drive suggestions gloves.
Nova 2 provides palm strain suggestions.
Like the unique, Nova 2 can present as much as 20 newtons resistance to your thumb, index finger, center finger, and ring finger, equal to the load of a 2kg brick on every finger. The thumb and index fingers even have vibrotactile actuators for conventional haptic suggestions, permitting Nova to simulate texture of digital surfaces.
However whereas the unique solely utilized suggestions and resistance to your fingers, Nova 2 goes a step additional by making use of strain throughout your palm. SenseGlove claims this allows extra lifelike simulation of drills, saws and grinders, hammers, pliers, and rehabilitation instruments, and even lets customers really feel a handshake in collaborative VR functions.
The unique Nova is already used for coaching.
Nova gloves haven’t got onboard positional monitoring, however embrace mounts for HTC Vive trackers or Quest Contact controllers. They are often paired to both standalone headsets or a PC through Bluetooth. Builders of bespoke enterprise apps can combine SenseGlove’s Unity, Unreal or native SDK to assist the drive suggestions and haptic options.
The unique Nova is already utilized by Volkswagen to coach manufacturing meeting staff, by MedVR for medical coaching, and by Prolong Robotics to remotely management robots. The Royal Netherlands Military has additionally been trialing it to coach gear meeting engineers. Whereas drive suggestions gloves stay a distant dream for the patron market, firms like SenseGlove, Contact CI, and HatpX have created an actual marketplace for them within the enterprise house.
