Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has been continuously working to make its idea of the Metaverse a reality. We have seen the company demo many new technologies in the AR/ VR department, including an AR-based wearable that lets users interact with virtual objects. Now, researchers at the Meta Reality Labs have developed a full-fledged working glove that lets you feel the touch sensation of virtual objects in the Metaverse.
Meta is calling these the Haptic Gloves as they essentially deliver relevant haptic feedback to users to make them feel that they are touching or holding a virtual object in their hands. The company says it has been working on the said technology for the past seven years. Although it started as a moonshot project initially, Meta now has the necessary technologies to make it a real product.
“Today the gloves are made individually by skilled engineers and technicians who manufacture the subsystems and assemble the gloves largely by hand. We use semi-automated processes where we can, but manufacturing these gloves at scale will require the invention of new manufacturing processes,” said Reality Labs’ Research Process Engineer Katherine Healy.
