Wearables and prosthetics serve many functions in collecting data, enabling movement, and improving the wearer’s functional ability and overall quality of life. The ability to sense touch, however, is more than just additive; it can transform the wearer’s engagement through the feeling of being “there.” We’ve written about haptic feedback from artificial skin, robotic arms, and smart insoles. Last fall, in September 2019, we wrote about BeBop Sensors’ Forte Wireless Data Glove, which uses haptic feedback to transmit senses of texture and surfaces.
At CES 2020, the Forte Data Glove is back in the news. BeBop Sensors announced the smart glove’s integration with a number of virtual reality (VR) systems: Oculus Quest Link, Oculus Rift S, Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality, and HTC, The Forte Data Glove’s hand-tracking, finger tracking, and haptic feelings for surface and texture open the potential for a wide range of VR applications including gaming, training, medical trials and training, robotics, drone control, and more.
Hygienic and comfortable, according to BeBop Sensors, the one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can run all day on one battery charge. In addition, unlike much of the technology we cover, the Forte Data Glove is available for sale now.
