Immersion

Tablets That Have a Certain Feel to Them

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 1 at 10:13 am PT

Even if many tablets look alike, they could soon feel very different, thanks to advances in the field known as haptics.

Lost in Immersion: Speaking French on the Web

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on August 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Rosetta Stone Totale may be the next best thing to living in a country.

Immersion: The Full D7 Demo

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 25, 2009 at 9:20 am PT

Immersion is the company behind haptic, or touch feedback, technology for some videogame consoles and cellphones. At the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, Immersion demoed its TouchSense for touchscreen keyboards and Immersive Messaging.

Immersion: The Full D7 Demo

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 25, 2009 at 9:18 am PT

Immersion is the company behind haptic, or touch feedback, technology for some videogame consoles and cellphones. At the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, Immersion demoed its TouchSense for touchscreen keyboards and Immersive Messaging.

D7 Tech Demo: Immersion

Oliver J. Chiang in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm PT

Immersion is the company behind haptic, or touch feedback, technology for some videogame consoles and cellphones. At D7, the company will reveal two of its newest technologies: TouchSense for touchscreen keyboards and Immersive Messaging. With TouchSense, the user is not only supposed to be able to get haptic feedback, but can also feel the virtual keys. Immersive Messaging will also use haptic feedback, as well as gesture recognition, to send messages that employ physical senses rather than text.

Apple R&D: The "R" Stands for Rumor

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2008 at 11:17 am PT

The media will gather tomorrow at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters for an invitation-only event–presumably about updates to its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. And, as with every Apple product launch, tomorrow’s has been preceded by feverish speculation about what form, exactly, those updates will take. Among the rumors currently making the rounds …

Apple R&D: The “R” Stands for Rumor

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2008 at 11:17 am PT

The media will gather tomorrow at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters for an invitation-only event–presumably about updates to its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. And, as with every Apple product launch, tomorrow’s has been preceded by feverish speculation about what form, exactly, those updates will take. Among the rumors currently making the rounds …