WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.799 on today's episode of Techquickie we are going to get a little touchy feely 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:13.080 which no no not like that but we are going to talk about haptics technologies 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.840 that create realtime feedback effects with touch rather than relying only on 00:00:15.639 --> 00:00:23.199 the sounds from a pair of headphones or images on a screen so arcade games going 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:27.560 all the way back to the mid 1970s have used force feedback particularly in 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:32.680 things like driving games where your steering wheel or your handlebars would 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:37.719 shake after you spent another 25 cents on crashing and burning yet again theme 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:43.200 parks later took this idea a few steps further with moving theater rides where 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:48.000 your seat or even the entire room would shake and vibrate to simulate an 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:53.320 adventure through some Fantastical land but in the mid 1990s we started to 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:59.399 finally see consumer grade haptics like the interactor vest in 1994 an early 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:04.600 wearable technology that plugged into your TV and converted certain 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:08.960 frequencies of audio into vibrations that you could feel in your chest with 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:13.280 the idea being to make sounds like explosions more realistic and immersive 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:18.159 of course what you were really doing was strapping a glorified subwoofer to your 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:21.079 body but progress is progress 3 years 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:26.520 later in 1997 Nintendo released the rumble pack for its Nintendo 64 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:30.439 Controller adding an extra bit of punch to now famous titles like Star Fox and 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:34.680 Super Smash Brothers and while the gentle rumbling of the 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:38.920 pack in your hand wouldn't truly make you feel like you were in the cockpit of 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:43.040 an xwing having just gotten blasted it was a nice additional feature that 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:48.119 enhanced the gaming experience enough that this sort of force feedback is now 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:50.840 a standard feature in many modern 00:01:48.119 --> 00:01:55.200 controllers today though there's far more in the works than just making your 00:01:52.560 --> 00:02:00.600 game pad shake a bit modern haptic Technologies typically take the form of 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:05.799 physical actuators that can VI in precise ways to mimic textures or 00:02:03.759 --> 00:02:11.000 provide more precise feedback than earlier Solutions the recently released 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:16.280 steam controller features track pads that simulate a wide variety of in-game 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:21.000 effects such as recoil from a gun and can also fool your fingers into thinking 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:26.440 they're using a clicky Mouse wheel or a track ball although the actual surface 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.680 itself is smooth and Apple's taptic 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:34.440 engine is capable of making your laptop touchpad emulate bumpy or pitted 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:37.560 surfaces and downward Clicks in addition 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:39.599 to the usual force feedback so other 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:44.480 types of controllers and input devices we may see in the future could offer so 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:49.959 much more even things like resistance effects where picking up a heavy object 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.560 in game can feel heavier to your fingers 00:02:49.959 --> 00:02:56.159 and we're also starting to explore how haptics can be used to put more reality 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.840 in virtual reality especially when it comes to haptic devices that can be 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.800 paired with VR headsets several kinds of 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:08.000 prototype haptic gloves have been developed using physical actuators in 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:13.080 individual fingers or even selectively inflatable air pockets to give users the 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:18.319 sense of touching and moving around a virtual world but lonus does this stuff 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:21.879 have any application Beyond gaming and showing off my expensive Apple toys to 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:26.440 my friends well of course it does designers that work with 3D models will 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:31.239 benefit from haptics in a huge way as they'll be able to use haptic gloves to 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:36.319 feel an object object modeled on screen or perhaps as an augmented reality 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.599 hologram right in front of them before it's manufactured and for folks that 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:45.000 have been afflicted by blindness haptics may offer a window to the world through 00:03:42.519 --> 00:03:48.959 devices like tacet which provides forc feedback to let patients know what's 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:52.879 around them using Sonar and speaking of medical applications Engineers are also 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:57.519 looking at ways to provide tactile feedback to Physicians that need to 00:03:54.920 --> 00:04:01.560 perform surgery on Far Away patients using a robot ARM and remote controller 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:06.319 that can mimic the feeling of the patient's body part allowing for much 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:11.040 greater Precision in situations where a supervising surgeon can't physically be 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:15.959 in the operating room I mean just think one day haptic feedback will not only be 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.479 the way to give yourself carpal tunnel because you can't put down your Oculus 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:24.800 Rift it might be the way your surgeon heals your hand speaking of learning 00:04:22.520 --> 00:04:28.680 self-surgery just kidding they teach lots of things but not 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