Building a graphics & haptics application is greatly simplified with the use of an API designed specifically for taking the advantage of 3D haptics. One such API is H3DAPI, developed by SenseGraphics, a subsidy of SurgicalScience. Fun note, SenseGraphics’ headquarter is only a few kilometers from Forsslund Systems here in Stockholm county, Sweden, so you…
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Forsslund Systems office is located in Sundbyberg, in northern Stockholm, and by coincidence you can take a short walk along the lake and arrive at another cool company; Stork Drives. They are a subsidiary of Maxon Motors in Switzerland, which makes the high precision motors and we use in our haptic devices. Last week they…
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On October 23, 2019, we officially displayed the Polhem haptic device for the first time, during Euro VR 2019, which was held in Tallin, Estonia. The demo went very well and we received the best demo award. Most popular among the applications we displayed was a simulation of virtual boxes that could be lifted up, stacked…
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We are introducing the new haptic device Polhem in a first public pre-view at EuroVR 2019! Come visit us in the demo exhibition. See page here: Haptikfabriken main page for a closer look at the device. Full paper here: http://haptikfabriken.com/forsslund_2019_polhem_eurovr.pdf
Today we are exhibiting at TEI Conference 2018. It is a sneak preview of what is coming, in addition to showing the ever popular WoodenHaptics + Chai 3D virtual vinyl record scratching demo.
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When I showed a sneak-preview of this site and blog for some friends they saw the picture of an antique factory and wondered if we had moved to Skansen, the famous outdoor museum of Stockholm, where it is situated. Well, of course not, but the picture illustrates well our intentions: an actual factory albeit small-scale,…
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When making a visuo-haptic system it is often beneficial to to enable the users to feel the objects where they see them. This can be achieved in several ways, but the most common is to use a tilted monitor and a mirror, so that a reflected image plane is created in the empty space under…
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Forsslund Systems AB is launching a new initiative called Haptikfabriken where we will produce developer-friendly haptic systems for sale, and participate in the haptic research and development community. With this blog we want to take you behind the scene and show a bit of what we are working on, as well as sharing and discussing…
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