Creepy Smartphone Add-On Shocks Your Muscles For Realistic Force Feedback

When delivered through a vacillate motor in a controller or smartphone , military force feedback is n’t particularly naturalistic . So researcher at Germany’sHasso Plattner Institutehave developed a young system for smartphones that useselectrical muscle stimulationto physically move the player ’s bridge player and forearms in response to the action happening on screen .

The stimulation cause the user ’s palm flexor muscle to contract bridge , which in round causes the phone to pitch to the left or proper . And so as to succeed in a customs flight simulator secret plan , the players who tested the system had to press back and counteract these unvoluntary effort . The shock used are plain completely painless , and the electrode that reserve it to interact with the user could be well incorporate into a succinct smartphone case . [ Pedro Lopes ResearchviaHasso Plattner InstitutviaNewScientist ]

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