Chapter 419: Haptic Feedback Technology for Virtual Objects

Back at the press conference, Wu Hao changed a PPT, and the screen displayed a schematic diagram of the decomposition of this pair of smart sensor gloves.

Glancing at the teleprompter in front of the stage and sorting out his thoughts, he continued: "In fact, this pair of smart sensor gloves is already perfect.

Having it means that you have a pair of dexterous real hands in the virtual world, which can help you operate many things in the virtual world. This is far more flexible, powerful, abundant, and advanced than any input device in the world today.

But we feel that this is not enough, this pair of gloves can only transmit our gestures in one direction so far, but cannot feed back the data information in the virtual world to the gloves for our hands to sense.

To put it simply, we grasp an object with our hands. When we grasp it, we can also feel its presence.

As for our pair of smart sensor gloves, we can intelligently experience the action of grabbing a virtual object, but we can't feel the existence of this virtual object.

It seems that we have grabbed an object, but it is only a virtual object in the virtual world. In the real world, however, we grasp air, so we can't sense anything, which affects our immersive experience.

Therefore, we are thinking, is there such a technology that can grasp and touch virtual objects, this tactile feeling can be applied to our hands through our smart sensor gloves? ”

Throwing out such a question, Wu Hao then replied to himself: "This idea is great, but it is very difficult to implement such a technology, very difficult. In order to develop this technology, we had to first understand what touch was.

Tactile sensation refers to the sensation produced by the contact of the skin tactile receptors with mechanical stimuli, which is caused by pressure and traction acting on the tactile receptors.

When the external force that is suitable for stimulation acts continuously or forcefully and reaches a relatively deep level, it is called pressure sensation. When a clear distinction is made by the recording of nerve discharges, a nerve discharge that is continuously stimulated is called a pressure sensation, and a small amount of discharge that is not sustained is called a tactile sensation. The adaptation of pressure-sensing discharge is slow, and the adaptation of tactile is fast.

The surface of our human skin is scattered with contacts, the size of the contacts is not the same, the distribution is irregular, in general, we have the most fingertips of our hands, followed by the head, back and calves the least, so the fingertips of the hands are the most sensitive to touch.

In other words, our hands have a very sensitive tactile system in the human body. How to use technology to simulate the different tactile sensations generated by our hands touching various materials is also a problem that we need to continue to think about and solve now and in the future.

However, after some in-depth research on the tactile system, we also found a preliminary solution. That is the use of technology to apply pressure to the surface of our hands, especially the surface of the abdomen.

Then, the immersive optical illusion brought by VR glasses is used to simulate the tactile and grasping sensation of our hands when grasping objects.

We added a self-developed bubble array pressurized material to the inside of the glove, which is a bit like the bubble protective film in our box.

The difference is that we inject a non-toxic and harmless special gas into each bubble, and control the state of the bubble through electrons. Normally, the bubble is in a shrinking state, but when it is electronically controlled, the bubble will expand rapidly. From soft to hard at the beginning, the whole reaction time is very short, only a few tenths of a millisecond.

And through control, we can make this bubble show several states such as shrinkage, softness, hardness, hardness, etc. In addition, it can also control the softness and hardness of bubbles in different positions through cluster control, so as to simulate the different pressure tactile sensations felt by various parts of the hand when people grasp different objects.

It is also because of this array of bubbles that we can simulate the degree of opening and closing of our hands when we pick up objects of different sizes, thus further increasing its realism.

To put it simply, the degree of opening and closing of our hands is different when we pick up a water cup and a pen, and this bubble pressurization simulation system can simulate this feeling of holding out of thin air.

How's that, great, right? Wu Hao asked at the audience.

Bang Bang Bang ...... In addition to some applause, he was greeted with warm applause. I was able to see the excited faces of many people in the audience, especially the fans and the employees of the company.

Wu Hao pressed his hand with a smile, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then continued: "In fact, this is only the first step, that is, the sense of grasping.

And the most difficult thing to simulate is the feeling of touching, when we touch objects of different materials, the feeling of the hand is different, and how to simulate this is also a major technical problem in the world.

Frankly, we don't have a perfect solution for this. At present, we can only use this bubble pressurization simulation system to simply simulate some objects, which can give you a preliminary sense of touch.

It makes you feel like you're touching an object, not a ball of air. As for how realistic it is, especially to simulate the feel of objects of different materials, we have to continue to look for better solutions.

We're sorry, but we're disappointed that our technical capabilities are still very limited. ”

In the face of Wu Hao's slightly apologetic words, the audience in the audience comforted one after another, and then these noisy comforting voices finally turned into a burst of warmer applause.

On the Internet, countless netizens were moved by his words.

"Damn, it's a good press conference, what are you doing so sensational, bad reviews."

"No, I'm going to cry, Wu Hao, this bastard is too good at fooling people."

"Moved, Wu Hao's words will be very frank, I love it, I will definitely buy a pair of these gloves after they are released."

"This technology is not to mention them, it is a big technical problem in the world, it is not their fault, at least they are doing technology in a down-to-earth manner."

"Either way, the smart sensor gloves are already amazing. It's great to be able to feel the presence of virtual objects. ”

"Upstairs, what you said made me think wrong."

"You silver, why do I want it so much."

"Brother, what I want is not you alone, don't say it, I'll go to the official website to see when I can make an appointment."

"Haha, you're not as smart as me, at this moment, I'm already on my way to our official brand experience store of Haoyu Technology."

"I'll go, why didn't I think of it. But it's night, I'm afraid it's already closed. ”

"No, today is the press conference of Haoyu Technology, and these brand experience stores must be crowded with fans to watch the live broadcast of the press conference."

"Then don't go, you won't be able to experience it."

"I can't experience it, I can take a closer look, I can't wait."

"Go together, go together, I'm already in the car."

“+1!”

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