During the second Sprint of the CORTEX2 Innovators Support Programme, the MHI team has made great progress. They successfully integrated the SG interaction system with OpenXR hand tracking, enabling social interactions such as handshakes and high fives. In addition, they created an MVP scene, demonstrating the system’s potential for multiplayer haptic interactions.
Read on to discover more about the Multiplayer Haptic Interactions (MHI) team’s key milestones and achievements.
MHI’s progress during Sprint 2 of the CORTEX2 programme
Q: How would you summarise MHI’s latest advancements within the CORTEX2 programme?
A: We have made the full integration of the SG interaction system and OpenXR hand tracking, enabled users to engage in social interactions, such as handshakes and high-fives, within a virtual environment, and created an MVP scene.
Q: What key milestones has MHI achieved, and what impact have they had?
A: We now have for the first time an MVP of a scene where people with haptic gloves can interact with other people using hand tracking.
Q: What are MHI’s next steps?
A: Our next step is polishing the MVP to a shareable scene and testing it with the CORTEX2 partners.
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