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Friday, November 18, 2011

Tactile Mobile: Haptic Application for Android Platform



Tactile Mobile allows to make accessible and interactive picture elements.

Main benefits:
. Feel and Touch your personal pictures
. Adds instantly tactile effects to any image
. Simulate tactile sensations related to the textures or relief of the 2D images displayed on your screen
. Revolutionary technology adds the sense of touch to your smartphone experience
. Pixel detection, carried out in real time, is announced by haptic effects
. Multimodal user interface: Haptic Feedback and Audio Feedback enable user-system interactions

Tactile Mobile makes palpable pixels on the fly, you can surf all the web haptically and auditorally. You won't believe your fingers and ears!

www.tactilemobile.net


Saturday, January 29, 2011

Stable version of iFeelPixel software

Hello friends,

A new version of iFeelPixel is available online. This is the most stable version ever released. We recommend to update your version of the software to improve stability.

Download link:
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/

Change list:

- Grid Options: weight simulator allows to simulate the weight of an object (icons, windows) if any button is pressed



- The default force settings have been modified. We recommend to reset settings to default if you installed a previous version on your machine.

- By default, sliders are set to the value 5, so users have equal range for decreasing and increasing forces.

- Grab the status bar with left-button to move the window (This is useful if your cursor become frozen when you click the title bar to move the window)

- TouchSense Plugin stability improved for TouchSense devices

- Stability and bug fixes

- The software automatically detects if the Falcon is calibrated

- Novint Falcon Settings: if position Z is disabled, the zoom is not controled by Z-axis

- "Swap buttons" added in "Force Settings" (Swap between left-button and right-button)

- Morse is not working correctly if another feature is activated (fixed issue)

- Error message on Exit, because library and process are not correctly unloaded and terminated (fixed issue)

For more information:
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/whatsnew10.htm

Best regards,
iFeelPixel association

Interactive Accessibility via Sense of Touch
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/

Friday, October 22, 2010

iFeelPixel new version with advanced feature

Hello all,

We are happy to announce that a new version (1.4.1) of iFeelPixel is available online with new features:

- Advanced Texture Generation Algorythm improved. Tactile Sensations are enhanced.



- We added 2 new type of sliders in the "Speed and force settings windows". These sliders allow to generate advanced textures sensations: Positive (Right or down directions) and Negative (Left or Up directions)




To unlock the Advanced Texture feature, the Professional edition of iFeelPixel TactileWare is required.
www.ifeelpixel.com/faq/#proversion

- New setup executable automatically disables desktop composition and run as Admin.

We are planning to develop new services and new features for special uses (multi-device capability).

Please let us know if you would like see another feature in the next version.

Thanks for your support and (haptic) feedback .

Best regards,
iFeelPixel association

Monday, July 12, 2010

iFeelPixel Interface updated

Greetings iFeelPixel user!

We are glad to announce you that a new version of iFeelPixel TactileWare (v.1.3.3) is released online.

If your version is outdated, please update to the most current version.
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/now.htm

Forgot your license key? Please go to our unlock key reminder
http://service.softwaredefender.com/remind

Are you a new user? Please register here:
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/

List of changes:
- Fully compatible with windows XP, Vista, Seven operating system

- Cursor Behavior added (User can determine the cursor speed) (v.1.3.3)
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/support/cursorbehavior.htm

- "Speed and force settings" window updated (v.1.3.3)
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/pictures/beta10/Speed_and_force_settings.png

- Color Detection: User can select between 4 methods of color generation (Intensity, Hue, Saturation, Luminance).

- Advanced Color Selector added

- The following features: Edge detection, Color detector, Tactile Grid, Texture generation and TONAR (windows attraction) have been updated and improved. The new tactile grid can be useful if others features cannot detect any pixel of interest (For example: overlay video).

- "Novint Falcon Settings" window updated (v.1.3.3)
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/screenshots/novint/novint_falcon_options.html

You can disable or enable gravity compensation directly from Novint Falcon Options.

This version is fixing some issues between the cursor accuracy and Z-axis. Thus, Tactile sensations have been improved.

- Use Novint Falcon 'Top Button' to:
+ Switch between Attraction, Normal, Repulsion (Primary effects).
+ Disable\Enable Mouse control
+ Switch between Mass, Damper, Spring and Acceleration (Secondary effects)
+ Show Shortcut Menu

- Possibility to disable/enable every axis (every axis can have his own Mass/Force).

- New Automatic Force Feedback Checkbox:
Checked = the Force is automatically generated by the velocity or acceleration (Recommended).
Unchecked = Manual Force.

Selection choices: mass, mass-damper, spring-mass-damper or mass-acceleration.

- Stability and bug fixes (v.1.3.3)

- Memory Usage Reduced (v.1.3.3)


A full list of changes in this version can be found at:
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/whatsnew10.htm

Please try this new version and let us know your point of view here:
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/support/test.php

Thanks again for your interest about our haptic technology.


Best regards,

iFeelPixel association
http://www.ifeelpixel.com

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

New version of iFeelPixel (Haptic interface)

Hello everyone,

This is to let you know a new version of iFeelPixel is available online. The new F-gen/NVeNt/HDAL Beta 2 is recommended and should be installed on your machine.

You can disable or enable gravity compensation directly from Novint Falcon Options.

This version is fixing some issues between the cursor accuracy and Z-axis. Thus, Tactile sensations have been improved. Please try this new version and let us know your opinion.

Link for registered users:
www.ifeelpixel.com/download/now.htm

Link for new users:
www.ifeelpixel.com/download/

- The default force settings have been modified. We recommend to reset settings to default if you installed a previous version on your machine.

- Compatibility improved for windows 7 (Application virtualization made with Boxedapp packer, side-by-side feature)

- We added a new slider in the "Speed and force settings windows".
This slider allows the software to decrease (slowly or quickly) the force feedback when there is no pixel detected.
www.ifeelpixel.com/pictures/novint/speed_force_settings.gif

- The following features: Edge detection, color detection (color selector), tactile Grid, Texture generation and TONAR (windows attraction) have been updated and improved. We added the Z-axis in the Grid option and Texture option.

- The software can detect if the new Novint Driver is correctly installed on the machine. It runs even if latest HDAL files are not installed or missing.

- The user can choose between absolute grip position or relative grip position.
www.ifeelpixel.com/pictures/novint/novint_settings.gif

A full list of changes is available at:
www.ifeelpixel.com/download/whatsnew10.htm

Thanks again to every users and Beta-testers that tried our software.

Best regards,
iFeelPixel association

Interactive Accessibility via Haptic Technology
http://www.ifeelpixel.com/