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Hong Z. Tan is a renowned haptics scientist at Google, known for her research on perception-based haptic interfaces. With a background in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MIT, respectively, Hong has also had extensive industry experience, including a stint at Microsoft Research Asia. She is a Fellow of IEEE for her contributions to wearable haptics and holds concurrent appointments at Purdue University in the fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Psychological Sciences. Learn more here.

We had this sparkling episode about VR gloves and haptics in VR with Craig Douglass from Contact CI.

Contact CI is developing a different type of force feedback based on bioinspired 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 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.

The Xprize competition is one of the institution pushing the boundaries of human knowledge through technology breakthrough.

The ANA-AVATAR Xprize competition looked to share a glimpse of what the future of telerobotic and telepresence could be.

We share this episode with Christian Lenz and Max Schwarz form the Nimbro team of Bonn University winner of the ANA-AVATAR Xprize.



It is a great conversation where good engineering and design choices mix with human factors and innovation development, and a bit of haptics.



Xprize: https://www.xprize.org/

⁠Bonn Univeristy:⁠ https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/

⁠Nimbro Team: https://nimbro.net/AVATAR/⁠

⁠Finals Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmESa2Olq4c&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnimbro.net%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt⁠

Pedro is Assistant Professor at University of Chicago and Lead of the Human Computer Integration Lab in the Department of Computer Science. 

He’s published over 30+ papers at ACM CHI & UIST. His work has been captured by MIT Technology Review, Discovery Channel, Wired, and New York Times. 

Learn more at Plopes.org.

Ben is the reference in the XR world leading the Road to VR since 2012.

He has a unique insight of the value of haptics for XR experiences, and how to build a great haptics peripherals and interfaces. 

Road to VR website

5 most interesting haptics technologies in the last five years