Facebook Reality Labs researchers say that someday their wearable AR controller will provide more advanced capabilities, such as being able to touch virtual interfaces and objects – and pick up virtual objects at a distance. — AP
LOS ANGELES: Facebook has a team of engineers working on next-generation computing devices and interfaces. The group on March 18 provided a first look at its latest prototype: a wrist-based controller that uses a combination of artificial intelligence and input from a wearer’s nervous system to interact with VR and AR environments.
Initially, the prototype of Facebook’s AR controller provides simple gesture-based input that is the equivalent to a button-click (e.g., the pinch and release of the thumb and forefinger). That enables such applications as shooting a virtual bow and arrow: Using wrist-based haptics, the device can approximate the sensation of pulling back the string of a bow.
