Haptics Club

Haptics Club

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Haptics Club episodes

  • #8 The Quest for VR Immersion with Hrafn Thorisson, the CEO of Aldin Dynamics

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    For Haptics Club #8, we're hosting guest speaker Hrafn Thorisson, CEO  and Co-Founder of Aldin Dynamics, creator of cutting-edge virtual  reality technologies and award-winning games like Waltz of the Wizard:  Natural Magic. We'll be discussing how crucial haptics is in virtual  reality and how optical hand-tracking suffers from the lack of haptics.


    https://www.aldin.io/waltzofthewizard/
    https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2280285932034855/?locale=en_US
    https://twitter.com/aldindynamics

    Brought to you by your trusted crew: Manuel Sainsily, Eric Vezzoli, Gijs Den Butter, Irina Tripapina, Ashley Huffman, Sarah Alkibsy 

    31 min
  • #7 The open source quest for touch in VR Lucas De Bonet (VRLucid)

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    The open-source quest for touch in VR with Lucas De Bonet from VRLucid Lucas, well known in the field for his quest to create affordable DIY haptics gloves for Virtual Reality. Lucas is a freshman at MIT who built an incredible open community around his development of fully functional haptics and hand tracking glove for a few dollars. In this episode we will dig deeper into the challenges and discoveries of building from the ground up an open-source haptic device, and what he is planning to do next. Lucas Personal Page: https://beacons.page/lucas_vrtech Youtube Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjWBEvwq3iNLXEdrGTR5S9A Brought to you by your trusted crew: Manuel Sainsily, Eric Vezzoli, Gijs DenButter, Irina Tripapina, Ashley Huffman, Sarah Alkibsy See less

    35 min
  • #6 What the Future Holds for the Haptics Market with James Hayward

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    For this Haptics Club event, our special guest James Hayward, Principal Analyst at IDTechEx, will talk to us about the current state of haptics technology and his predictions for the industry.


    James is a Principal Analyst at IDTechEx where he oversees a team of analysts across varied topic areas, including leading IDTechEx’s work on haptics over the past 5 years. He also covers related areas such as wearable technology and augmented, mixed and virtual reality (AR, VR, MR).

    The team of analysts at IDTechEx provide market intelligence and technology scouting to many leading players around the world, including many of the most prominent players in haptics. James and the team also speak regularly at events around the world (pre-pandemic), including events hosted by IDTechEx.

    IDTechEx's latest report called "Haptics 2021-2031: Technologies, Market & Players", which predicts that the industry will be worth nearly $5bn in 2025, is available here: https://www.idtechex.com/en/research-report/haptics-2021-2031-technologies-market-and-players/794

    From the Haptics Club: Eric Vezzoli, Manuel Sainsily, Ashley Huffman, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, and Irina Tripapina

    32 min
  • #5 Temporal, dynamic, and interactive nature of multisensory perception with Massimiliano di Luca

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    Temporal, dynamic, and interactive nature of multisensory perception with Dr. Massimiliano di Luca.


    Massimiliano Di Luca is a cognitive scientist with an interdisciplinary background that spans neuroscience, cognitive science, and engineering. Massimiliano Di Luca received the PhD Degree in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 2006, the Laurea in Psychology from the Università di Trieste in 2000, and has a technical background in engineering. He worked in electronics and IT, has been a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and a research scientist at Oculus Research and Facebook Reality Labs. He is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
    Dr Di Luca performs fundamental and applied research to understand the temporal, dynamic, and interactive nature of multisensory perception. He uses psychophysical experiments and neuroimaging methods to capture how the brain employs multiple sources of sensory information and combines them with assumptions about the environment, predictions about future states of the world, and information obtained through active exploration and manipulation. Dr Di Luca employs signal processing and machine learning to discover patterns in the interaction and user's movements that relate to perception. The leitmotiv of his research is to create computational models that constitute quantitative and testable theories about the underlying cognitive and neural processes. Such models can be used for simulations (i.e. to be implemented in robots), rendering (i.e. in haptic devices), and prediction about the user movement, responses, states (i.e. to optimise the generation of sensory cues in VR systems by using perceptual metrics)

    From the Haptics Club: Eric Vezzoli, Manuel Sainsily, Ashley Huffman, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, and Irina Tripapina

    32 min
  • #3 The Shocking History of Haptics with David Parisi

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    The shocking history of Haptics with David Parisi, author of The Archeology of Touch, and associate professor at the College of Charleston.


    David is a media theorist specialized in Haptics and tactile technologies media. In this episode, we will talk about the different implementation of haptics technology all along with the history, the current challenges, and the future of haptics. 

    From the Haptics Club: Eric Vezzoli, Manuel Sainsily, Ashley Huffman, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, and Irina Tripapina


    39 min
  • #2 Haptics Design for Automotive with Filip Aleksandrow

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    Haptics Club with Filip Aleksandrow, User Experience designer at Immersion Corporation with a deep interest in automotive experience design.

    We will talk about haptics in Automotive, haptics trend, and the future of haptics.

    From the Haptics Club: Eric Vezzoli, Manuel Sainsily, Ashley Huffman, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, and Irina Tripapina

    34 min
  • #1 Haptics in VR gaming with Alex Meland

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    Haptics Club with Alex Meland, community manager of bHaptics.

    We will talk about haptics in VR gaming, haptics trend, and the future of haptics.


    From the Haptics Club: Eric Vezzoli, Manuel Sainsily, Ashley Huffman, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, and Irina Tripapina

    36 min

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Open community talking about #haptics in any form. One event every two weeks with speakers from industry and academia