VR glove allows wearers to grasp digital objects

VR gloves are not a brand new technology, but these mostly focus on translating movements into digital commands. Taking this, a team of Korean scientists created a new high-tech glove that enables wearer to grab virtual objects.

VR glove allows wearers to grasp digital objects

A new high-tech glove turns the wearer’s hand into a kind of controller for VR experiences, tricking their brains to believe that they are actually grabbing an object that is not physically present and is only in Virtual Reality (VR).

Taking the input flow in the other direction so via glove a user can “feel” their digital environment, which has typically focused on transmitting a sense of texture. That’s pretty cool, the new glove actually transmits the details of a virtual object’s shape to a user’s fingertips.

The smart glove, dubbed as a ‘pneumatic actuator and flexible piezoelectric sensor’, works by sending out an electrical signal that allows the soft material to contract when anyone ‘touches’ something in VR, hence mimicking the sensations of controlling digital objects.

With the help of sensors, the VR high-tech glove can tell the computer where the virtual hand should go, while the actuators in the wearer glove provide a type of sensation for the user’s actual hand.