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3M Touch Systems MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense® System
TouchSense Tactile Cues Engage Players in Gaming Systems
Challenge
- Innovate, differentiate, and provide a better casino gaming experience
- Help players focus on their game in the exciting, yet distracting, casino environment
Solution – Touchscreens that Touch Back
- Allows users to feel sensations that intuitively guide them through operation or provide a more realistic and immersive experience
- Add richness to the experience by giving people the option to touch as well as use their sight and hearing
- Compensate for the noisy casino environment where sight and sound aren't giving adequate feedback
- Synchronize haptic feedback with sound and graphical images to create a more immersive, multisensory experience
Outcome – A New Generation of Gaming Systems
- Takes highest honors in Casino Journal’s Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products of 2007
3M MicroTouch Capacitive TouchSense® System
“We combine audio and visual with touch so it becomes an even greater multi-sensory experience... that heightens player interactivity.”
—Alice Moran, marketing manager, 3M Touch Systems
Logitech Driving Force GT Racing Wheel
Force Feedback Puts Gamers on the Road to Reality
Challenge
Make a gaming wheel to showcase the immersive realism of Sony’s Gran Turismo: 5 Prologue racing game
Solution – Make the Wheel Feel Real
- Use Immersion force feedback to recreate bumps, crashes, and traction loss with jaw-dropping realism
- Let users feel every inch of the road for maximum control and the ultimate racing experience
- Provide 900-degree wheel rotation and force feedback with exceptional responsiveness to game action, without dead zones or lag time
Outcome – The Ultimate Steering Wheel
- “Great force feedback” —Techgage
- “A new force-feedback system, promising ultra-realistic simulation of understeer, oversteer and traction loss” —Gizmag
- “It probably won’t come as a shock when I tell you that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue comes alive when it’s played with a force-feedback wheel. The step up in realism and immersion this wheel provides is amazing....” —The Gamer Gene
- “Logitech's Driving Force Wireless ($99.99; logitech.com) lets racing fans who own a PlayStation 3 climb behind the wheel with force feedback for a realistic racing game experience. Feel every bump, grind and crash up to 30 feet away from the console.” —USA Today
Logitech Driving Force GT
“What’s really important in the design of this wheel is the accuracy of the force feedback. You’ll truly experience the realism of sports driving.”
—Kazunori Yamauchi, producer, Gran Turismo
dreamGEAR Shadow Wireless
Force Feedback Lets PS3 Players Combine Rumble and Comfort
Challenge
- Design a more comfortable PS3 controller
- Enhance gaming precision
Solution – A New Standard for PS3 Gaming
- Dual rumble motors powered by Immersion rumble feedback
- Customized layout of the analog sticks delivers more comfort and precision
- Enhanced L2 and R2 triggers help prevent slipping during game play
Outcome – CES Innovations Award Winner
- “Re-Designed wireless controller with custom analog sticks creates the ultimate gaming experience: Designed with a state of the art stick configuration, . . . dual rumble motors and a built-in rechargeable battery, the Shadow Wireless offers unmatched functionality and form.” —NAG, News for Gamers
- “Immersion is one of the primary companies behind force feedback and haptics. They’re working with a peripheral maker called dreamGEAR to put out a wireless Dual Shock alternative called the Shadow.” —CrunchGear
"Gamers have made it clear that force feedback is a requirement, and our new Shadow Wireless with Immersion's TouchSense technology will change the way they play PlayStation 3 games."
—Jason Biheller, vice president of research and development, dreamGEAR
Saitek J62 P2500 Rumble Force Game Pad
Rumble Force Adds Maximum Gaming Realism
Challenge
- Deliver a game pad with play as good as its looks
- Satisfy the needs of hard-core gamers
Solution – Styling, Features, and Rumble Force
- Distinctive Saitek styling
- Immersion's TouchSense Rumble technology for super realistic responses
- Advanced analog and digital controls for hours of fatigue-free gaming
- 4-position digital throttle with LED indicators
- 8-way D-Pad 2 shoulder triggers
- Shift key feature provides up to 16 programmable button functions
Outcome – What Gamers Want
- “If you want to step away from keyboard gaming functions, then this Saitek P2500 J62 Rumble Force Game Pad for the PC will suit you down to the ground. The main features of the Saitek P2500 J62 Rumble Force Game Pad controller include PC game pad with powerful Rumble Force technology for maximum gaming realism....” —Shopping Product Reviews
"The main features of the Saitek P2500 J62 Rumble Force Game Pad controller include a PC game pad with powerful Rumble Force technology for maximum gaming realism." —Shopping Product Reviews