The year is 1997, and it’s around Christmas. You open your gifts to find a new accessory for your Nintendo 64. It’s called a Rumble Pak, a removable device that plugs into the back of your controller.

Haptics are any type of technology that gives you a tactile response — for example, when your phone vibrates, or controller rumbles.

Haptic Touch replaces 3D Touch, and responds to long presses with a slight vibration. Haptic Touch works via software, as opposed to using dedicated pressure-sensitive hardware. Most first and ...

How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address ...

The entertainment industry is abuzz thanks to the launch of next-gen immersive technologies such as the Apple Vision Pro and recently announced Meta Quest Pro 2. Talk is now naturally gravitating ...

Corsair has unveiled its latest headset, the HS60 Haptic. The killer feature here is the inclusion of haptic bass from ...

The touch screen is taking over cell phones, and soon mobile computing and even desktop computing. Both Apple and Microsoft are working on a transition to touch-enabled versions of OS X and Windows.

I am very familiar with just how good Apple's trackpads are. So when I heard about the HyperSpace TrackPad Pro for Windows, I ...

At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, January 8-12, UK's Ultraleap used haptic techology to allow visitors to experience rain and sun through a virtual bonsai tree using AR and VR. Extended Reality (XR) is a high ...