Some even integrate temperature sensations, which Reality Labs isn’t prioritizing.īut Meta is poised to mass-market haptic gloves in a way other companies can’t. Even combining VR with something as simple as controller vibrations can make people feel more like they’re touching something, and many companies have worked on wearables that either track users’ hands or provide haptic sensation. Simulated touch isn’t an entirely new phenomenon. “And I will tell you, I was running my finger over a ceramic plate.” “I saw the plate, and I saw my finger on the plate, and I heard the sound - that kind of scraping sound across it - and I felt the vibration,” he says. One of the first experiences that Reality Labs head Michael Abrash recalls was looking at a virtual plate from inside a VR headset - where a single actuator, combined with the virtual image and the sound of rubbing the rough ceramic, was incredibly convincing. Reality Labs has been working on this prototype for years It developed its first prototype - one finger with a single actuator - in 2015. Meta has been working on it nearly since it acquired the Oculus VR startup in 2014. The tech draws on the relatively new field of soft robotics, replacing bulky motors with tiny air valves. These sensations work alongside visual and audio cues to produce the illusion of physical touch. If you’re gripping a virtual item, the long finger actuators will stiffen, creating a sensation of resistance. If you’re touching a virtual object with your fingertips, you’ll feel the sensation of that object pressing into your skin. When you put on the glove and enter a VR or AR experience, a sophisticated control system adjusts the level of inflation, creating pressure on different parts of your hand. The back features small white markers that let cameras track how the fingers move through space, and it’s got internal sensors that capture how the wearer’s fingers are bending. The pads are arranged to fit along the wearer’s palm, the underside of their fingers, and their fingertips. While Meta’s not letting the glove out of its Reality Labs research division, the company is showing it off for the first time today, and it sees the device - alongside other wearable tech - as the future of VR and AR interaction.Īt a simplified level, Meta’s haptics prototype is a glove lined with around 15 ridged and inflatable plastic pads known as actuators. For seven years, though, it’s been quietly working on one of its most ambitious projects yet: a haptic glove that reproduces sensations like grasping an object or running your hand along a surface. Meta (formerly Facebook) is known for its high-profile moves into virtual and augmented reality. Because I've spent the better part of a week researching and trying to make the thing do just that.You cannot pet a dog in Meta’s new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. If you can show me that substance supports the old models, and can correctly output the old specular model maps, be my guest. Be it the Ambient baked into the texture, or false highlights. As these older models expect some amount of lighting information. The Albedo in substance is -not- compatible to the diffuse element of the application I am authoring for. The year I worked with substance, I had to paint the ruffness inverted and check in the game engine, and spend several hours tweaking it in photoshop till it was somewhat right. The Specularity/ruffness that Substance creates is -not- compatible to the old lighting models. And it's not predictable, so you have to tailor your textures to the use case. I'm working with engines where the textures has to have a small amount of lighting information, while also being specifically designed for the game's/applications lighting situations. I'm not working with modern rendering engines. It still uses the rougness maps, it still uses the muted colors of an albedo. The Non-PBR someone mentioned earlier, or stylized rendering is still PBR because the engine outputs are specifically for PBR. Why? Because PBR is pretty stable across lighting scenarios, regardless of implementation. Substance Painter as it is right now is compatible with any -MODERN- render engine that supports PBR.
I think you missed what my grievances were. I am guessing someone immediately assumed I don't know my business? I know the difference between texturing and shading.
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