Haptics Club

Pedro is Assistant Professor at University of Chicago and Lead of the Human Computer Integration Lab in the Department of Computer Science. 

He’s published over 30+ papers at ACM CHI & UIST. His work has been captured by MIT Technology Review, Discovery Channel, Wired, and New York Times. 

Learn more at Plopes.org.

Ben is the reference in the XR world leading the Road to VR since 2012.

He has a unique insight of the value of haptics for XR experiences, and how to build a great haptics peripherals and interfaces. 

Road to VR website

5 most interesting haptics technologies in the last five years

We sit down in this episode with Tom Carter, co-founder, former CTO, and now CEO of Ultraleap. 

Ultraleap raised their series D in 2021 of $82 millions for their hand tracking, and mid-air haptic technology. 

We will chat around the entrepreneurial and technological story of Ultraleap, from Ultrahaptics first, the Leap Motion acquisition later and the fusion of the two companies projecting into to future. 

One of the rare successful haptic ventures.  

Longer chat, totally worth it !

In this episode we will touch all the future of haptics prediction of our speakers in the past 33 episodes with the help of Dave Parisi, the reference for haptics media studies.  

The result are surprising and unexpected. 

They paint a grounded and clear view of the next five years for the haptics market.  

Best consumed as a video!

Oliver does haptics since he was a teenager, and it shows it. He is now assistant professor of human computer interaction at Waterloo University. 

He specializes in HX, a short form of Haptics Experience.

We will talk about design, design tools, multisensory experiences and lifelong learnings in this great episode. 

For more information, visit Oliver Schneider’s profile on the University of Waterloo’s website and his official website Oliverschneider.ca.

In this episode we will discuss of the value, opportunities, and use cases of wideband vibrotactile technologies with  Rafal Pijewski, CTO of Actronika, a company specialized in transparent wideband actuators, and Kyle Skippon, lead engineer from Titan Haptics, a company that develops HD haptic motors based on Linear Magnetic Ram technology.

We touch on topics like haptics design, control, tradeoffs and opportunities for the current and future market.

Ed is one of the cornerstone figures of the haptics ecosystem, both in Academia and Entrepreneurships with multiple companies developed over the years. 

He holds the Breed Senior Professorship of Design at Northwestern University and Professorship of Mechanical Engineering. 

We will discuss of lifelong learning, how to approach a research career in Haptics, and what to think about when developing a Haptics company.

Enjoy!

We interview Sara Price and Carey Jewitt from university College of London on digital touch communication. 

We discuss the results of the long and ambitious in Touch project investigating digital touch from a sociological and human centered perspective.   

Fantastic conversation!  

Manifesto of Digital Social Touch: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.754050/full

In Touch project website: https://in-touch-digital.com/

Season 3 of Haptics Club is here! For the first episode of the season #29, we have special guest Bob Crockett of HaptX, best known for their haptic gloves for virtual reality and robotics.

We cover the challenges of hardware development in the emerging fields of VR and AR, and the entrepreneurial side of bringing complex technology to market.