Following success with its previous haptic glove iterations, WEART is launching TouchDIVER Pro to bring haptic XR interactions to businesses today.
The device is a pair of advanced haptic gloves that will be available for pre-order until November 30, 2024, at €3,900. Following the pre-order window, WEART will sell the TouchDIVER Pro package for €4,900. Gloves will be sold via WEART’s website and official distributors.
The XR revolution is coming, with new AR/VR/MR solutions debuting throughout 2024. On that note, leading into 2025, the XR market is looking to shift, with interest shifting towards emerging technologies such as AR and MR, with accessible products debuting from firms like Meta and Apple.
WEART looks to join this XR product shift with its wearable haptic product. Going into 2025, WEART will showcase TouchDIVER Pro demos worldwide, matching a forecasted surge of enterprise XR interest.
TouchDIVER Pro: New Features and Technology
The TouchDIVER Pro haptic glove package notably has a design that includes six actuation points, which distribute force feedback, textures rendering and thermal cues across all five fingers and the palm-therefore creating a realistic simulation of an object feelings in AR/VR/MR-applicable business situations.
Alongside the haptic feedback distribution, TouchDIVER Pro leverages full hand tracking with a deep precision of 0.6 degrees and a per-finger accuracy of up to 2mm.
The hand-tracking integration enables WEART to keep streamlined interaction at the heart of the TouchDIVER Pro package, enabling complex gestures, similar to how leading XR devices from Meta and Apple are turning to tracking-based interactions.
Following on the theme of streamlined interaction and usability, TouchDIVER Pro has no adaptors, a hot-swappable battery, and a 200-gram weight; driving user accessibility and flexibility.
The TouchDIVER Pro is also a multi-module product that works across PCVR and stand-alone headsets, with support for Meta Quest, Pico, HTC, and Windows Mixed Reality-ready for a range of end-user situations.
To support multi-module accessibility goals, TouchDIVER Pro also supports three connectivity modes: WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and a tethered version.
This accessibility and multi-module-focused approach allows WEART to support various business situations and outcomes. Often, applying new technology to a working situation requires a technology-transparent approach that can achieve positive outcomes without the technology interrupting the user experience, which WEART aims to tackle.
To help adopters leverage TouchDIVER Pro in business situations, WEART is also deploying a supporting Unity and Unreal-ready SDK for creating custom hand-object interactions. The SDK includes an accompanying textures library to help teams get started with 22 ready-to-go textures.
Bring Haptics to Businesses Today
WEART notes that the TouchDIVER Pro product is ready for various workplace situations due to its flexible design considerations and unique ability to boost commonplace XR use cases such as training, product design, and teleoperations with haptic feedback.
For example, in industrial training procedures, TouchDIVER Pro can accompany a virtual or mixed-reality headset, providing an additional layer of tactile, haptic feedback for enhanced immersion.
This increased immersion can assist trainees in learning by helping them more deeply experience potentially dangerous and hazardous situations with reduced risk and heightened realism.
Additionally, with heightened realism, trainees can tackle risky procedures such as heavy machinery operations with a greater understanding than they would with regular virtual training.
At the same time, it also improves repair and maintenance training by providing haptic feedback that accurately translates real-world machinery details into virtual objects, helping to train hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and precision during complex operations. Again, without incurring risk to a trainee and negating the risk of damage to expensive equipment.
The haptic feedback also reaches training outside of heavy industry. WEART is keenly aware of the growing healthcare XR market, and the TouchDIVER Pro package is ready for virtual medical training and surgical simulation.
Another emerging enterprise market where XR is finding a home is virtual prototyping and product deisgn, WEART is supporting that space also.
TouchDIVER Pro can assist product design teams in creating digital twins of upcoming products by boosting awareness of an upcoming product’s details and assisting with remote assessments.
With haptics covering a broad range of product engineers in verticals such as automotive, architecture, construction, industry, medical equipment design, and consumer goods.
On the marketing side of product design and review, WEART is aiming to enhance virtual marketing experiences for brands and consumers with TouchDIVER Pro. Providing a haptic avenue for buyers to experience upcoming products virtually with its unique approach to tactile feedback, creating an engaging experience for customers while also providing fruitful data assets for brands.
Haptic gloves enable businesses to enhance the value of XR setups, whether for virtual product demos or high-risk simulated training procedures. The new TouchDIVER Pro are setting a precedent for the growing use of haptics in enterprise applications.
