Beyond Touch: Haptic controllers

[zboson]

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2984526
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12730252
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5v3u0vmm4

[TwoHedWlf]

Huh, neat.

[Map63Vette]

Wow, that's really cool.  The "joystick" style one seems like it would be a pretty natural inclusion on a controller.

[Steffen]

Looks like it only works for one finger. I would personally wait to get such a thing until it works for the entire surface of my palm.

[TwoHedWlf]

Steffen said:

Looks like it only works for one finger. I would personally wait to get such a thing until it works for the entire surface of my palm.

It's an engineering rig, not a consumer version.