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Polhem to Örebro University

After one of our most successful years yet, Haptikfabriken can now proudly present Örebro Universityas the newest member of our growing Polhem family (the group of universities owning at least onePolhem haptic device). Örebro University has conducted research with Polhem devices before (see this earlier post regardinga Vinnova projekt), but in that case the devices…
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Kobra Dental Simulators at Rostock Medical University

We are pleased to announce the successful installation of three Kobra dental simulators at the dental institution of Rostock Medical University. The complete delivery and installation of Kobra simulators from HaptikFabriken will contribute to the advancement of dental education and training at the university, which is renowned for its commitment to academic excellence and innovative…
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Try out our latest products at World Haptics 2023!

During July 10-13, the next World Haptics conference will be held in Delft in the Netherlands. Aside from being one of the sponsors of the event, we will also contribute with a hands-on demonstration where you will get the chance to try out some of our latest products, of course including the latest version of…
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Surgeons need to warm up

Like people in sports; -always warming up before performing… maybe also surgeons should find a way of getting a bit of “warm-up-exercise” before they go into surgery action. Here we see a good example where our Polhem haptics come in handy, together with the VES, Visable Ear Surgery simulator from Denmark. If you would like…
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Haptikfabriken participated in a recent Vinnova-funded project!

Haptikfabriken, through Jonas Forsslund, acted as a consultancy company in a Vinnova-funded project that started in November 2019 and ended this year in May. The aim of the project was to develop new digital multimodal learning environments in which visually impaired and sighted pupils in high school should be able to do group work together.…
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Additional fund raising and new Partner

Haptikfabriken AB has raised additional funds and welcomes Dr. Jonas Moll as new partner in the company. The new funds will be used towards the next iteration of Polhem, making it even more robust and improved manufacturability. The improvements will be announced in Q1 2022. Dr Moll is an assistant professor at Örebro University and…
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Polhem haptics at dental university

Polhem has been delivered to Spain and the ADEMA Dental school of La Escuela Universitaria in Palma de Mallorca. Polhem has been installed together with the Virteasy suite of dental simulator software and will give the user an experience of high fidelity haptics with a stiffness matched to the real experience of drilling. The installation…
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Haptikfabriken is live!

Haptikfabriken AB – The Swedish Haptics Factory has been officially incorporated. Haptikfabriken is a company that will accelerate the production and distribution of high-quality 3D haptic devices for use in human-machine interface applications where the “sense-of-touch” adds value to the user experience. Haptikfabriken will initially focus on the market for research within Virtual Reality (VR),…
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Quad-Buffered OpenGL 3D Vision On a Laptop

Nvidia 3D vision is (or was…) a cost-effective way to get stereoscopic 3D on an ordinary gaming PC in windows, or with a professional Quadro graphics card, to do the same in Linux. One cool thing it can be used for is to run a Co-location Display, where haptics and visual imagery is co-located so…
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Chai3D

In a previous post we discussed H3DAPI as a useful API for creating visuo-haptic applications. Another great API is Chai3D. I use it for most small applications I develop these days. It is a smaller framework and rely on purely imperative C++. Together with the single-file examples it makes it straight-forward to transit from getting-started…
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