Chinese Teenagers Develop "Civilian Version" Virtual Reality Gloves (Map)

On October 27th, according to foreign media reports, a hand movement capture device developed by a Chinese robotic company called Dexta Robotics attracted the attention of foreign media.

Although foreign countries already have such equipment, such as CyberGrasp, Haptic Workstation and so on.

But this virtual reality glove is the main price.

It is reported that the virtual reality gloves will be released in May next year.

65 dollars.

The price of similar products ranges from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

This virtual reality glove is called Dexmo, which can be used as a virtual reality control device or robot controller.

This product has two versions, the classic version and the F2 version.

In virtual reality

It can perceive the movements of human hands and feedback them in the digital world.

F2 version of Dexmo also has tactile feedback function, that is, when the user picks up something in the virtual world, the mechanical device will simulate the touch of something.

For example, when you have an apple in your hand, the mechanical device will stop your fingers from continuing to move to Apple's physical space.

So it's like picking up a virtual object on the screen.

The classic version, without tactile feedback, is a pure motion perception device.

It can be used to control manipulator and even deal with dangerous and sensitive tasks such as bomb disposal.

Dexta Robotics is currently trying to raise $200 thousand through the Kickstarter crowd raising website for product development.

Dexta Robotics was founded in March by the valley in the United States.

The founder of the company is 19 years old. He is a fanatical robot enthusiast. The founder of the innovation society of Nanjing foreign language school, the author of the robot "universal axis", and has many national innovation competition awards, 2 items.

Patents are being held in the United States when companies are founded.

The company's team currently has only 5 people and is responsible for all development tasks.

At present, the company does not seem to care much about domestic users.