What Would It Take for You To Get Lost in VR for a Weekend?

Why doesn’t nearly every household have a VR headset, in the same way, that more than half of households have smart speakers? Both have been hyped (and somewhat underwhelmed us). The challenge for VR has been finding a way to engage many of our senses. Not just our eyes.

Would you use VR more if you could actually feel things in VR?

When raising a virtual pet, you could feel the actual sensation of scratching your dog behind its ear or rubbing its belly. When rock climbing, you could feel each rock’s edge as you make your way toward a virtual summit.

Would that convince you to spend more time and money on this technology?

Regardless, 2020 is the year we add the sense of touch to our commercial use of VR through haptic gloves.

Teslasuit unveiled their Teslasuit Glove which is a haptic glove you can wear in virtual reality to actually feel what you’re seeing. What’s so paramount here is that they’re a commercial glove that not only works well but looks good.

At a price tag of $5,000, the Teslasuit Glove is meant for consumer entertainment purposes. They’re largely designed to create more immersive training and medical simulators. The commercial applications are really the main focus of AR and VR at the moment.

But it won’t be long until that price drops and the consumer potential begins to rise.

Overall, I’m bullish on the state of virtual reality. I made the bold (and perhaps a bit premature) claim that the Oculus Go was the iPhone of Virtual Reality. Haptic touch brings us closer to this iPhone moment.

VR is a long investment that won’t pay returns today. But the entire vision of VR and AR creating what’s known as the Metaverse, is ultimately the evolution of the Internet:

Haptic Gloves bring us one step closer to bringing virtual reality into our weekly routines.

What would it take for you to get lost in VR for a weekend?