LucidVR
Take matter into your own hands.
Idea in Administrative Services
Introduction
LucidVR offers affordable VR haptic gloves with immersive finger tracking & force feedback for enhanced virtual experiences. Our affordable gloves provide realistic hand interaction and wide compatibility, bridging the gap between VR enthusiasts & costly enterprise solutions.
Problem
Current interaction solutions for virtual reality require users to use plastic controllers in their hands, which prevents them from interacting with objects in a natural way as they would in real life. On top of this, a lack of realistic haptics leads to a lack of immersion, as not enough tactile information is presented to the user. Current solutions for VR Haptic gloves, which aim to solve this in the enterprise sector, are extremely expensive and inaccessible for the majority of users. ($5,000 USD - $100,000 USD) Currently our project is possible to DIY with resources we’ve put online, but for many people in the VR enthusiast community it’s impossible as they don’t have the tools or resources needed. This is also a problem for research in the academic sector as many of these gloves are only available to enterprise customers.
Opportunity
We propose (and have already created and published) a design for a VR haptic glove built using hobby-grade parts that provide both finger tracking and force feedback haptics, which can be produced for as cheap as $60 a pair. It uses hall effect sensors to measure the positions of the joints of the fingers and uses servo motors to pull back your fingers so that you can actually feel the shape and resistance of virtual objects as if they were actually in your hand. It is 6-DOF tracking agnostic, which means it can connect to any PC VR-compatible VR headset system, and thanks to a driver we have written, it is compatible with a variety of VR software already.