Immersion MOTIV Platform Can Make Smartphone Apps Touch You


Video courtesy of ImmersionCorporation

One of the more underused features of modern smartphones is their ability to vibrate with some programmatic specificity. Android, for example, can be configured to vibrate when a virtual key on its on-screen keyboard is pressed. Immersion Corp. has been around a long time (1993) I remember buying a mouse which licensed its technology to vibrate the mouse as it “bumped” into objects on the screen like on-screen buttons and menus. back around 1996 or so.

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