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I got up early in Las Vegas to check out Afference, and I’m glad I did. In a suite at the Venetian during the CES 2024 tech trade show, founders Jacob Segil and Dustin Tyler showed me how they create artificial touch sensations by putting some wired rings on my fingers.
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The name “Afference” refers to the side of the nervous system that carries information back to the brain, Segil said.
“Our whole company is about new feedback with the sense of touch,” Segil said. “We’re going to let the headsets and everyone else figure out the hand tracking and those things. We leverage it so that you have this natural interface, a seamless interface, and then we provide afferent information from the senses.”
I can think of a lot of uses for this, like giving you touch feedback when you play a faux virtual piano with your fingers. If you’re holding a sword, it should feel heavier in your hands than something like a fork.
“We think we can help enable a new computing era. But we aren’t dependent on that for success.”
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