These controller gloves may decrease the price of tactile VR

There are two phrases that can make avid gamers of a sure age go weak on the knees: Power Glove. We’re not saying Driver-X was impressed by the legendary Nintendo accent when conceiving its “Contact Glove” VR controller, however the comparisons are going to be inevitable.

Driver-X’s haptic VR gloves do double obligation as each a sensory suggestions software for “grabbing” objects in a digital world and a VR controller. The corporate claims it’s the primary VR glove that makes use of micro coils to ship a extra genuine tactile expertise. The coils encompass your fingers and when a present is utilized they contract a linked movie to offer, hopefully, a extra life like sensory expertise.

The controller half makes use of hand “poses” and gestures to imitate the buttons and triggers discovered on standard controllers. It’s a logical method so as to add further performance, particularly as the entire level is to not be holding one thing (not one thing in the actual world at the least).

Maybe the extra attention-grabbing “characteristic” is the worth. The Contact Glove begins at round $1,850 which is significantly lower than some of the present alternatives (though every strategy is sort of completely different and possibly circuitously comparable).

Both method, in case you’re focused on getting your palms in a pair, it’s value figuring out that the gloves are at present being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. On the very least, the objective has already been reached, and we did see a working demo right here at CES however the ordinary caveats apply.