Immersion, a developer and licensor of haptics technology, has unveiled a new TouchSense 2500 product in the TouchSense 2000 series, to power touch feedback effects in touch screen computers.
The new TouchSense 2500 allows drop-in IC offerings to drive haptic effects that transform the user experience in touch-based PCs, tablets, slates, notebooks, netbooks, ultra-portables and all-in-one computers.
The new product provides tactile response, making interactions more intuitive, satisfying and exciting by restoring ‘mechanical’ feel to screens.
TouchSense 2500 offerings support integrated and advanced UIs and touch gesture-based interactions and may be integrated to generate a palette of effects from simple alerts to sophisticated touch gestures in touch pads, capacitive buttons, touch screens and virtual keyboards.
In addition, it includes product-specific reference designs, a haptics effects library, and supports both Windows and Android operating systems, the company said.
Immersion marketing vice president Dennis Sheehan said that the company is seeing increased adoption of touch-input interfaces across a range of other markets, most notably in mobile computing.
"TouchSense 2500 provides OEMs and designers an easy-to-implement haptics offering and makes these interfaces dynamic, ultimately pleasing users and differentiating products," Sheehan said.
