Carnegie Mellon University Future Interfaces Group
Fluid Reality haptic glove (2023)
High-resolution shape-changing fingertip touch in virtual reality
Price not verified
ETH Zurich / EPFL
DextrES
Research prototypeElectrostatic braking and fingertip feedback for virtual grasping.
Price not verified
Physical DextrES glove prototype. Authors’ teaser Figure a photographic panel; annotations retained.
- ETH press release says up to40 N, while the research abstract states20 N; the narrower paper figure is retained and the discrepancy disclosed.
- Prototype braking resists movement rather than actively moving the fingers.
Key details
- Designed for
- Electrostatic braking and fingertip feedback for virtual grasping ↗
PRICES & AVAILABILITY
Prices & availability
No verified price in this audit.
2018 physical research prototype. No consumer release or public device purchase price verified.
2018 physical research prototype. No consumer release or public device purchase price verified.
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Specifications
- Designed for
- Electrostatic braking and fingertip feedback for virtual grasping ↗
- Form factor
- Thin glove-mounted research apparatus ↗
- Research Year
- 2018 ↗
- Weight
- Less than 8 g for the described haptic glove mechanism ↗
- Brake
- Electrostatic attraction between flexible elastic metal strips ↗
- Holding Force
- Up to 20 N per equipped finger in the authors’ research abstract ↗
- Mounted Digits
- Index finger and thumb using articulated3D-printed guides ↗
- Cutaneous Feedback
- Piezoelectric actuators at the fingertips ↗
- Power & output
- Externally cabled prototype; possible battery use was future work ↗
- Construction
- Fabric glove, elastic metal strips and insulating layer ↗
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