PINNED: 500 supporters goal (Patreon)

Time flies, we have only a few more months and we're in 2024 already! 🤯 No flying cars yet, but there's still time to experience some of the scifi stuff people have been dreaming of for so long: virtual reality that you can touch.

Well, the tech is already there and Meta is working on Meta Gloves to replace controllers. There are lots of many smaller companies working on their own haptic gloves. Some go very deep with it, like HaptX, though at insane prices. But there are some that are more affordable and available already too.

I've been tempted to buy a pair of such gloves and try to add support for them in VAM. It would be a bit of a time sink though, so keeping it on hold for now. But if we get to 500 supporters this year, I'll buy a pair of bHaptics TactGlove  and give it a go to adding VAM support to celebrate! This was their launch video earlier this year for people interested. I've seen reviews that you can pet 🐱 with them, so I figured it might have an application or two in vam too.

bHaptics also has other haptic devices so (assuming that their SDK is not bananas) I'd likely try to make it work for their other devices too, like the TactVest, so that vam models can tickle you, hug you, massage you, etc.