There has been wide ranging research into haptics, much of it in academia.
D. at Stanford University, where he was laboring in the seemingly obscure field of haptics, or the science of touch.
It might have revolutionized user interaction and gaming with advanced haptics.
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For haptics to get cheaper, there must be recognisable added value and the field of medical simulation is an obvious start, she said.
"We believe that haptics has the potential to fundamentally change and enhance the mobile user experience, " explains Rob Lacroix, VP of Engineering at Immersion.
"One of the reasons why haptics hasn't achieved mass market visibility is because the devices are still very expensive, " she told BBC News Online.
Student nurses at the University of Northumberland have tried the system and said they would prefer it over the plastic dummy hand, said UK Haptics.
Dr Sile O'Modhrain, lead researcher of Media Labs Europe's Palpable Machines group, said there is a big future for haptics, but there are still barriers.
It extends on the simplistic beauty of its core OS with a suite of intuitive gestures and haptics, creating what is ultimately a lovely package.
The litigation was initiated based on Motorola's various uses of a simple form of haptic effects in its mobile devices, sometimes referred to as Basic Haptics.
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But there is a distinction between kinds of haptics, like force feedback where device pushes back against you, and cheaper vibration haptics which turn up in mobiles.
The cheap looking capacitive touch buttons aren't much out of the norm for Android, but interesting the phone doesn't have any haptics to let you know if you've clicked one.
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Advances in haptics could allow blind people to feel objects that others can see, or allow visitors to a museum website to feel the shape and texture of an ancient object.
Surgeons who do key-hole surgery have used 3D systems like this to train, but UK Haptics see their system as having a more widespread appeal to a large number of nurses.
Immersion will be demonstrating applications that utilize the MOTIV SDK and will be hosting a session on designing applications with haptics at the AnDevCon conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
Although much of the research in this area is still in its infancy, some experts predict that haptics will soon be as familiar a part of the computer desktop as colour graphics and stereo sound are today.
Members of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore are clearly troubled by the separation of human and poultry brought on by fast-paced modern life, and offer a very, um, interesting solution to this pressing problem by combining wireless, haptics, cybernetics, and augmented reality.
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Under the settlement and license agreement, Immersion is receiving compensation for prior shipments of Motorola devices containing Basic Haptics technology, the parties have agreed to a license relating to future shipments of Motorola devices with Basic Haptics, and have resolved certain issues with respect to Google-branded smartphones containing Basic Haptics.
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"The successful resolution of this case is a critical step in our overall strategy of enforcing and monetizing our intellectual property, including Basic Haptics, and we're pleased to achieve a settlement that is consistent with our business model, which is largely based on per unit running royalties, " said Immersion CEO Victor Viegas.
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