I’m back to writing about Virtual Reality again. If you remember before, I wrote about Striker VR’s Arena Infinity VR Gun that gives haptic feedback to simulate recoil. It looks like something even much better will be soon available in the real world for Virtual Reality fans to use than just simulating recoil. This device actually helps you touch and feel objects in the virtual world.

Enter the Dexmo Glove from Dexta Robotics. This is a mechanical exoskeleton glove that can capture the full range of your hands’ motion and gives feedback when you try to touch and feel virtual objects. And this means you can feel the size, shape and stiffness of the object you are touching virtually. Sounds kinky, isn’t it?

Dexmo is really a cool technology that helps you immerse in the VR that apart from a 360-degree view of your digital world, since the ability to touch makes the experience even more interactive than ever before.

As an example for airsoft players, they will be able to feel a virtual gun, they can feel it firing when they pull the virtual trigger and allows them to virtually do some reloads. The can do pump action with a virtual shotgun or even draw a virtual pistol from a virtual holster. Now, it is up to the games developer to take advantage of this software development tools that Dexta Robotics will make available for those who intend to develop applications for the Dexmo Glove.

Apart from gaming, there are a lot of possibilities for using the Dexmo Glove, be it in education, training, and medicine. In medicine, doctors can simulate a surgical procedure on a virtual patient with the Dexmo Glove, especially for a very sensitive procedure before doing it on the real patient. This can help surgical teams to learn about potential problems that may arise and develop responses before the actual surgery takes place.

The Dexmo Glove is a light device so it can be powered by battery and work wirelessly. With precise motor control, variable stiffness is achieved.

Road to VR has a good story of Dexta Robotics, including an interview with Aler Gu, the CEO of Dexta Robotics.

With Virtual Reality goggles/headsets are much affordable and more developers working on content and applications to work with Virtual Reality, just imagine playing the first person shooter games that many airsoft players engross themselves when not out playing airsoft. Perhaps, from a mechanical exoskeleton glove that can help players touch digital objects, a full exoskeleton that can be plugged in to the virtual world and that will give a full body virtual experience.