Ultrahaptics CEO Steve Cliffe said: “We’re in the perfect position to bring this technology to a market hungry to produce a better, more intuitive, interaction with technology. We’re engaged with key global players in a variety of traditional and novel technology industries. The horizons have just been expanded, bringing together haptics and optics is incredibly exciting for us and this partnership will help us develop a host of new implementations quicker. It brings a wealth of expertise to the possibilities.”
The Shinoda and Makino lab has been exploring mid-air feedback technologies and its partnership with Ultrahaptics allows for collaboration and exchange of information. The lab has developed several novel implementations of ultrasound touch technology, including haptoclone – an interactive system producing haptic and optical clone images in mid-air so that two users can ‘touch’ each other.
