PROJECTS Budget VR Haptic Gloves
Budget VR
Haptic Gloves
Written and photographed by Lucas VRTech
Use your hands in virtual reality and feel the
objects you touch — for about 50 bucks
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Prototype 4 of the Budget
VR Haptic Gloves, with
finger tracking reels and
force feedback servos.
Stuck at home due to pandemic lockdowns, I
turned to virtual reality as a way to keep me
occupied during quarantine, but I was very
unimpressed by the controllers used to play
games in VR. Not only are they clunky and
unintuitive, but they also don’t allow you to use
your hands like you would in real life: touching,
grasping, and feeling objects.
Solutions do exist, such as commercial VR
gloves for professionals, however these cost
thousands of dollars and are virtually inaccessible
to the average consumer. A few consumer
products are available but these can’t do force
feedback to make it feel like you’re really holding
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