ETH Zurich / EPFL
DextrES
Electrostatic braking and fingertip feedback for virtual grasping
Price not verified
Carnegie Mellon University Future Interfaces Group
Fluid Reality haptic glove (2023)
Research prototypeHigh-resolution shape-changing fingertip touch in virtual reality.
Price not verified
Physical Fluid Reality glove prototype photographed on a hand. Credit: Fluid Reality & CMU.
- Potential consumer price points at production scale are a research projection, not a retail offer.
- Performance values are author-reported prototype measurements.
Key details
PRICES & AVAILABILITY
Prices & availability
No verified price in this audit.
Physical UIST2023 research prototype; no public complete-device retail price verified.
Physical UIST2023 research prototype; no public complete-device retail price verified.
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Specifications
- Designed for
- High-resolution shape-changing fingertip touch in virtual reality ↗
- Form factor
- Battery-powered five-finger haptic research glove ↗
- Research Year
- 2023 ↗
- Actuators
- 160 haptic actuators across five fingers ↗
- Pixel Density
- 20 haptic pixels per square centimetre ↗
- Actuator Thickness
- 5 mm ↗
- Power & output
- Approximately 10 mW per pixel ↗
- Weight
- 207 g including drive electronics and battery ↗
- Mechanism
- Electroosmotic pump arrays with self-contained fluid actuation ↗
- Connection & compatibility
- Wireless control; no external supply tubes or wires ↗
- Hand Tracking
- Provided by the headset in the documented system ↗
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ContactGlove3
Finger tracking and haptic input for SteamVR
¥99,800 JPY≈ €563 EUR · $629 USDJapan · Store price · Maker page sold out; next arrival date undecided
Price details
≈ €563 EUR · $629 USDECB 2026-10-12
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Checked 2026-10-13. Current native yen maker listing, tax included. October shipping was a preorder expectation, not confirmed delivery.
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