Cirque continues to push the envelope in human machine interaction by exploring new ways for people to interact in virtual reality with the VR Grip™ platform. 

Cirque’s VR Grip solution can turn a virtual reality controller, joystick or game controller into a fully touch sensitive surface. In addition to tracking a users hand and fingers on the controller surface, proximity sensing also tracks finger position in the open space above the controller surface. This provides functionality similar to a glove tracking system, while maintaining the direct tactile feedback and trigger control of a controller. Unique custom flexible sensors allow this solution to fit into almost any industrial design. 

Cirque’s architecture uses one touch controller chip to power both the VR Grip proximity sensor and a traditional trackpad. The trackpad portion is perfect for a round thumb sensor, and also features proximity sensing of the thumb above the surface. 

This one-chip architecture provides a feature-rich solution for enabling next generation input devices. 

Flexible Development Platform

Cirque offers a full featured development platform to speed integration of the VR Grip platform into your designs. This includes:

• Reference VR Grip controller hardware that provides a simple example design and a platform for initial evaluation. 

• Documentation package with a sample application for getting data from the hardware (source code provided) and details on how to implement the VR Grip platform in your microprocessor environment.