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TechVRApple’s VR headset expected to give feedback to your faceClever haptic technology should deliver more immersive feedback in Apple’s AR/VR headsetWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Clever haptic technology should deliver more immersive feedback in Apple’s AR/VR headset
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: AppleInsider)
(Image credit: AppleInsider)
The eagle-eyed patent detectives at PatentlyApplemay havediscovereda crucial new feature in the forthcomingApple AR/VR headset: force feedback to your face.
The patent is for a Gyroscopic Precession Engine for HMD (head-mounted display). In plain English that means a haptic feedback mechanism that’s more nuanced than the throbbing you get in youriPhoneorApple Watch, and which could add physical sensations to the audio and visual content to make you feel even more immersed. It sounds amazing.
Feel the virtual breeze on your actual face
According to the patent, the engine could deliver some very realistic experiences such as “creating a sensation of air wave pressure (e.g., from an explosion scene), creating a sensation of centrifugal force (e.g., a bumpy roller coaster ride or car racing), head/neck/hand/wrist exercising (e.g., providing a counter torque to the user’s motion), ergo correction (e.g., notify or guide the user to a fix bad sitting or standing posture) and providing reaction force feedback in VR applications (e.g., boxing an object and feeling a reaction force on the hand/wrist).”
I’ve been writing about Apple patents for a long time and many of them never progress beyond the original filing, but this one feels different: the patent filing shows the system in something that looks very much like it’d work in the headset we’re expecting Apple to launch in 2023, and its inclusion might explain why Apple’s rumoured four-figure price is so much higher than thePSVR 2.
Virtual reality you can see and hear is pretty amazing. But virtual reality you canfeel? If Apple can deliver what the patent promises instead of the lumps and bumps of existing haptic feedback systems, that could be a genuine game changer.
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