High Fidelity and NeoSensory teamed up to launch a Haptic Jacket.
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High Fidelity and NeoSensory launch Ready Player One-style Haptic Jacket

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I just saw Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, and I’ve been thinking about the haptic suit that allows the main character to feel the sense of touch in virtual reality. Now we’re getting a taste of that in real life through the Haptic Jacket being launched today by High Fidelity and NeoSensory.

I got to try out the jacket at a recent event at High Fidelity, Philip Rosedale’s open source social VR company in San Francisco. Rosedale (who will be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2018 event) was the visionary behind Second Life, the online virtual world built by his former company, Linden Lab. He has teamed up with David Eagleman, founder of NeoSensory, to bring the sense of touch to VR.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.