The Future of the Touch Interface? Microsoft’s 3D Haptic Project Incorporates Touch Screens With Tactile Feedback
2 July, 2013
Microsoft Research is working on an interesting project right now involving a touch screen which not only allows users to move objects on a screen, but also allows them to feel the resistance and “hardness” of an object.
The BBC has also written an article about it.
Could this be a step in the direction of the next generation of touch screen technology?
WRITTEN BY
Jack Meyer
Bespoke jewellery designer, and specialist in jewellery CAD/CAM and emergent technologies that affect jewellery.
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