By David Birnbaum, Distinguished Staff, Technology Strategy
As I noted in my previous article on the Three Haptic Trends to Watch, haptic wellness will make its way into the mainstream over the next few years. It is…
By Felipe Almeida, Sr. UX Researcher and Ranjini Raghuveer, Product Manager at Immersion
As the famous Greek philosopher, Heraclitus said, “Change is the only constant in life.”
The whole world has been affected by the COVID 19 pandemic, not excluding the automotive industry.…
By Filip Aleksandrow, Interaction Design Architect Reach him at www.linkedin.com/in/faleksandrow
Statista: Number of smartphone users worldwide from 2016 to 2021(in billions)
Today,
there are over 3.5 billion smartphone users in the world – an astounding 45% of
the…
By David Birnbaum, Head of Design Strategy and Outreach
Researchers from UC San Diego recently published findings on simulating softness by first calculating how soft or hard a material will feel based on material thickness, stiffness, and surface properties. The…
In the last 25 years, we’ve seen many changes in the field of haptics.
In its early days, haptics was, for the most part, an academic thought that few labs entertained, and few companies were bold enough to try to commercialize. The killer haptic application still unknown,…
Immersion’s Business Development Lead for Gaming, Bob Heubel, recently attended PocketGamer’s XR Connects and talks about the event and what it was like to be a judge for the VR Indie Pitch.
This year I had the pleasure of attending XR Connects Helsinki, a show that brings…
We sat down with Chris Ullrich, Immersion’s VP of Technology to talk about the company has evolved over the last 25 years.
Can you take us through Immersion’s history? How did it get started?
Immersion was founded nearly 25 years ago out of a robotics lab at Stanford University.…
