Haptics Club

Haptics Club is joined live with Craig Shultz and Joe Mullenbach of Fluid Reality, which recently showed its electroosmotic device that uses an electric field to create feedback.

Craig is co-founder and CTO of Fluid Reality, a spinout commercializing his post doctoral work at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the Future Interfaces Group. He's the inventor of Flat Panel Haptics and specializes in interactive embedded systems and haptic actuation.

CEO of Fluid Reality Joe Mullenbach discusses how Fluid Reality created a miniature actuation platform that brings the power and flexibility of hydraulics to human scale devices.

Contact info https://fluidreality.com - contact form at the bottom https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmullenbach/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdshultz/ Articles https://www.fastcompany.com/90978057/this-groundbreaking-tech-could-finally-bring-a-sense-of-touch-to-virtual-reality https://www.popsci.com/technology/fluid-reality-haptic-glove/ https://gizmodo.com/carnegie-mellon-touchscreen-pop-up-buttons-1850377517

Season finale before the summer stop!

We discuss the latest haptics innovation happened in the market, and why we believe they are worth to discuss.

Have a good listen!

Peter A. Botticelli joined SynTouch as Director of Customer Solutions with a strong background in custom robotics and control systems. Peter studied electrical engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He worked in development as a robotics engineer at Barrett Technology Inc. and UniFirst Corporation. At SynTouch, Peter develops state-of-the art machine sensing technology, working with leaders in various industries including consumer electronics, automotive, textiles, and consumer goods to provide novel applications for machine touch. Learn more about SynTouch on their website.

We had this sparkling episode about VR gloves and haptics in VR with Contact CI co-founder Craig Douglass. Contact CI is developing a different type of force feedback based on bio-inspired control methods of resistive force feedback.

Great discussion about Haptics and VR in general worth a listen!

In this episode we sit down with Danny Grant, technology visionary who has a proven record of innovation and a passion for building a better future and for the past 20 years have led product innovation at Immersion Corp. Now a funding partner at Innovobot Resonance Ventures.

We talk about the innovation process for the DualSense haptics, the entrepreneurship process finally bringing it to the market, and how to judge if a haptics product will "make the cut" and be successful.

We sit down in this episode with Tom Carter, co-founder, former CTO, and now CEO of Ultraleap. 

Ultraleap raised their series D in 2021 of $82 millions for their hand tracking, and mid-air haptic technology. 

We will chat around the entrepreneurial and technological story of Ultraleap, from Ultrahaptics first, the Leap Motion acquisition later and the fusion of the two companies projecting into to future. 

One of the rare successful haptic ventures.  

Longer chat, totally worth it !

In this episode we will touch all the future of haptics prediction of our speakers in the past 33 episodes with the help of Dave Parisi, the reference for haptics media studies.  

The result are surprising and unexpected. 

They paint a grounded and clear view of the next five years for the haptics market.  

Best consumed as a video!

In this episode we will discuss of the value, opportunities, and use cases of wideband vibrotactile technologies with  Rafal Pijewski, CTO of Actronika, a company specialized in transparent wideband actuators, and Kyle Skippon, lead engineer from Titan Haptics, a company that develops HD haptic motors based on Linear Magnetic Ram technology.

We touch on topics like haptics design, control, tradeoffs and opportunities for the current and future market.

Ed is one of the cornerstone figures of the haptics ecosystem, both in Academia and Entrepreneurships with multiple companies developed over the years. 

He holds the Breed Senior Professorship of Design at Northwestern University and Professorship of Mechanical Engineering. 

We will discuss of lifelong learning, how to approach a research career in Haptics, and what to think about when developing a Haptics company.

Enjoy!

We interview Sara Price and Carey Jewitt from university College of London on digital touch communication. 

We discuss the results of the long and ambitious in Touch project investigating digital touch from a sociological and human centered perspective.   

Fantastic conversation!  

Manifesto of Digital Social Touch: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.754050/full

In Touch project website: https://in-touch-digital.com/

Season 3 of Haptics Club is here! For the first episode of the season #29, we have special guest Bob Crockett of HaptX, best known for their haptic gloves for virtual reality and robotics.

We cover the challenges of hardware development in the emerging fields of VR and AR, and the entrepreneurial side of bringing complex technology to market.

Have you heard the origin story of HaptX? This is a truly inspiring story you don't want to miss.

For more information about HaptX, visit https://haptx.com.

Second Season Finale!

A retrospective of the topics shared in the last 20 episodes, and a secret announcement!

Don't miss it 

HC # 27 is an event fully dedicated to Haptics mixed with musical experiences on the creation, shared play, and listening side.
We have Samantha Melnyk from Korg the famous digital musical instrument creators, and Luca Turchet, from Trento University.

It is a wonderful conversation on the interplay of haptics and music, and how the tactile sense can increase and expand the experience of the listener and the player.

For more information about Samantha and Korg, visit https://korg.berlin/.

For more information about Luca and University of Trento visit http://www.lucaturchet.it/

HC # 26 Haptic Feedback in Marketing & E-commerce with Dr. Margot Racat. Marketing UX & haptic researcher in computer-mediated consumption at IDRAC Business School Lyon.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uvOLS3gAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.ecoles-idrac.com/campus/lyon

Adult Haptics Ecosystem with Kyle Machulis, better known as qDot, founder and CEO of Nonpolynomail.

Fantastic conversation spanning from the tremendous growth of the adult haptics ecosystem, the challenges of defining your target technology map, and the impacts of remote agency on your personal space.

A must listen.

https://nonpolynomial.com

HC #24 will be covering the process that goes through designing, prototyping & evaluating haptic interactions. Featuring Thomas Müller founder of Hapticlabs.io.

https://www.hapticlabs.io

HC#23 will feature Matt Tullis, the VP of XR, at Ultraleap. Ultraleap is a leader in hand tracking and mid-air haptic technologies.

We talk in the episode about the current future evolution of Ultraleap technologies, developer ecosystem, Open XR, and the future of Haptics. 

www.ultraleap.com

HC#22 will dive into one haptics market rarely talked about. Haptics for movie experiences. We will have on stage Robert Desautels, CTO of D-box. 

D-box built a growing business for 20 years supplying movie theatres and high-end home installation with high fidelity haptics chair and have a full fledge end-to-end haptics design and distribution studio to “haptify” the latest movie release.

https://www.d-box.com/en

For HC21 we have the XR haptics, implementation and design guidelines book presentations authored by Chris Ullrich from Immersion, Rafal Pijewsky from Actronika, and our crew members Gijs den Butter from Senseglove and Eric Vezzoli from Interhaptics.

Book link: https://hapticsif.org/xr-haptics-book/

The authors interviewed world-leading experts in haptics to solidify their experience on the market to deliver a practical implementation guideline for XR implementers and product managers evaluating haptics for their product.
The book includes tons of original illustrations and content, use cases, implementation guides, tips, and resources.

Among the experts interviewed and sharing content:
Vincent Hayward from Isir and Actronika
Ed Colgate from Northwestern University
Allison Okamura from Stanford
Jess O'brian from Meta Reality Labs
Margot Racat from Idrac
Oliver Schneider from the University of Waterloo
David Birnbaum from Creative Foresight
William Frier from Ultraleap
Joe Michaels from Haptix
Daniel Shor from Contaxtual Labs

In this event, we will talk about the quantification of haptics with Elisa Santella from Grewus. The ability to deliver design guidelines for the implementation of Haptics is of fundamental importance to reduce development costs for haptics products.

We will talk about the characteristics and perks of the quantification framework developed for the automotive sector.

For Haptics Club #19, we're hosting guest speaker Antoine Weill-Duflos, Director of Research and Product Integration at Haply Robotics. He'll be discussing how his team is building haptic devices for medical simulation. And how they are working to facilitate access to force feedback devices and haptics in general, and how knowledge of haptic perception and illusion can play a role.

Event #19 will be hosted by the haptics crew Manu .Vision, Eric Vezzoli, Gijs DenButter, Irina Tripapina, Ashley Huffman, and Sarah Alkibsy.

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Vincent Hayward has more than 30 years of experience in haptics and had major contribution in haptics control, perception, algorithms, and design.

A must listen.

Video recording of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHkjMZPcdpw

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hayward

Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YWv1lIkAAAAJ&hl=en

Academie de Sciences: https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-H/vincent-hayward.html

Chris Ullrich was in a privileged position over the past 20 years in the haptics innovation space. Being the CTO of Immersion, the major technological player in the haptics space, he "saw it all".

He is with us for this landmark episode. We talked about many different topics like technology strategy, IP, business models, T-shirts, user experience, scaling haptics, failed predictions, future of haptics, and much more.

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As usual, with your trusted crew: Ashley Huffman, Manuel Sainsily, Eric Vezzoli, Gijs den Butter, Sarah Alkibsy, Irina Tripapina.

HC #16 with Hasti Sefi, Hannah Elbaggari, and Samantha Melnyk of the learn haptics project

We will touch a lot of important aspects of the relation between haptics industry and academia, discovering haptics, partnership, and how to create compelling haptics experiences. 

Find out more on the website https://www.learnhaptics.org/

HC#15 with Ranjini Raghuveer, former Immersion Corporation in charge of product management for automotive haptics. 

We will talk about product constraints, user experience, and needs for the automotive market.

Show Notes:

Trends in automotive haptics: https://www.immersion.com/automotive-haptics-trends-and-perspectives/

HC#2 with Filip Aleksandrow: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5p9fc56bh2PBtFNvwXbXNF?si=H0OvxUw3RJGQHMLK0plEpg