Haptic Feedback at the Fingertips

Presenting fingertip haptics: touch feedback on flat keyboards and touchscreens. Imagine feeling key clicks while typing on a Touch Cover or a Windows Phone, and locating a tile on a touchscreen through its unique tactile texture. Such effects are realized with piezoelectric actuators and electrostatic haptics technology.

[TheSektorz]

I've actually been asking myself for years why hasn't someone done this already. Since using touchscreens is quite annoying and there's no feedback at what you're "pressing" or "touching" - as she said, more mistakes are made and it feels much less pleasant than typing on my full-sized laptop keyboard here, where I feel the buttons clearly and they're comfortable. So great work, I'd like to try this.

[bermuge]

That was cool, and very well explained. Thanks!

[TheMedivalBlast]

This is genius! This would make typing at touch screens way better, thus requiring you less to use a physical keyboard.

[zacharyzetts]

Her voice was so soothing (coming from an English speaking American). She can read me a book anytime.

[dccaleb]

I’m actually very interested to see how Playstation will pull this off with the PS5

[MikeTrieu]

I'm fairly certain that Electro-Active Polymer and electrostatic haptics are not in any way novel. Perhaps with the EAP, Microsoft Research found a way to get the material to actuate much quicker than previously demonstrated, but that'd have to be duplicated for me to believe it.

[malachi]

Ya really well explianed that was awesome. I have allwats been intrigued by haptic tech.

[nabkawe]

@Savi™ It's not when you think that a big share of their profits now is from patent licensees and sues so don't worry about them.

[RohanOrhanHaron]

Microsoft Developer, wouldn't this be easy to develop as a braille phone/tablet?

[MarcAnthonyMcMillon]

This tech is in most phones now. A good example would be the vibration in the screen after texting.... But Playstation controllers with this feedback could be eh... I wouldn't want this in a shooting/fighting game because it would happen nearly all the time. I can definitely see it in VR more.

[SirJoeYama]

please include this on the new surface pro model...

[per-axelskogsberg]

Really cool and useful information. Thank you.

[mrshah]

So does that pizo electric effect vibrate the atoms of the glass?

[cesarm]

New Ps5 controller will have this...huh

[AugustoBaptista]

Oww... Hong Tan, the next Avatar bending glasses...
About batteries? It uses ultrasound? Our animals could live near that?

[anmol__]

Super video I am you are be logged by comment me