Your phone’s lock screen is the hottest new real estate in tech. Apple made the iPhone’s lock screen a centerpiece of iOS 16 , giving users more control over how theirs looks and works. But while Apple talked about pretty clock fonts and nifty color-matched wallpapers, it also showed off a world in which your lock screen is more than just a security measure: it’s becoming another surface on which companies can put information, apps, and even ads. Apple’s far from the only company thinking about this, too. TechCrunch reports that Glance , a lock screen content company (which apparently is a thing!) is already in talks with US carriers and plans to launch on some Android phones in the US in the next two months. The competition for your eyeballs and attention has already come out of apps and onto your home screen, through widgets and notifications. Now it looks like it’s headed one step further: onto the first thing you see when you turn on your phone, before you even pick it up … [Read more...] about Apps and advertisers are coming for your lock screen, and it’s going to be exhausting
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I let someone else control my hands using gloves designed for VR headsets
Audio player loading… Trying out haptic wearables at the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK gave me the opportunity to immerse myself in VR games in a tactile and exciting way - my whole body could touch and feel digital objects as if they were real. That was wild and then, with some haptic wearables for my hands, things got weird. While trying out the Teslasuit – a full-body haptic suit that was the most immersive VR device I’ve ever used – I also got to wear the Teslasuit Gloves. Much like the full-body Teslasuit, the Teslasuit Gloves are designed to work with the best VR headsets to make experiences more real using haptics. To do this, it borrows elements from the Teslasuit design. The glove has electrodes placed against each of your fingertips that can output a current from 1mA to 80mA in different patterns to stimulate your muscles and mimic real sensations. The glove kicks things up a level though with a new trick: force feedback, which works in … [Read more...] about I let someone else control my hands using gloves designed for VR headsets