Some folks already find virtual reality devices prohibitively expensive, but the haptic feedback devices that attempt to pull the sensation of touch into the normally visually focused experience of virtual reality tend to command figures that only the likes of Elon Musk might find comfortable.
Recently, though, researcher Inrak Choi and colleagues at Stanford’s SHAPE lab developed a haptic feedback device for simulating grasping motions that the rest of us may one day be able to afford.
