Japanese company ‘FamilyMart’ will introduce VR remote controlled robots to some stores
On June 30, 2020, a major Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart announced that it will collaborate with Telexistence (TX) to build a store management system using a VR-based remote-controlled robot. TX is a Tokyo-based robotics company that develops remote control robots
New Haptic Feedback Device Uses Strings to Simulate Touch in The Virtual World
Carnegie Mellon University researchers published a paper recently that proposes a novel VR haptic feedback device, which unlike strictly hand-worn haptic devices, lets you feel objects in VR with a measure of ‘positional’ resistance. Inside Wireality, the strings connect to spring-loaded