If you could feel a digital texture as vividly as touching real fabric — the rough weave of corduroy, the smoothness of leather — what would that change about how we interact with machines? At ...

Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, ...

By Stephen Beech A new bandage-like device allows people to "feel" textures through touchscreens. The soft, stretchable material wraps around a fingertip to give digital touch the same realism people ...

The first time a fingertip meets VoxeLite, the feeling is strangely familiar. The surface under your finger is flat and smooth, yet your skin reports ridges, bumps and even the drag of a rough fabric.

In virtual reality there is much to be seen, but most of our other senses are left wanting. Ever since the concept gathered mainstream attention in the 1990s, it’s been primarily experienced through ...

On most mornings, Jeremy D. Brown eats an avocado. But first, he gives it a little squeeze. A ripe avocado will yield to that pressure, but not too much. Brown also gauges the fruit’s weight in his ...

Doctoral student Sylvia Tan, who led the study said: “Touch is the last major sense without a true digital interface. “We have technologies that make things look and sound real. "Now, we want to make ...