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Facebook is developing haptic gloves to touch the metaverse

The metaverse will not just be a virtual reality world in which you would only be able to see and not touch, since Meta, known before as Facebook, is developing haptic gloves that will allow for feeling and touching the objects and other things seen in this digital universe.

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The system that Meta is exploring is somewhat similar to this, and it is currently in the first stages of its development. However, the company has an interesting approach to the technology since they consider that "it is not actually possible to replicate the physics of the real world." So they added another layer to the mission, trying to bring about a stimulus combination that won't be just offering the haptic feature, but it will also offer auditive and visual features which "makes whoever uses the gloves feel the real weight of an object." The company says that it has been studying for seven years now on this glove and describes the starting process of the project as "shooting the Moon", meaning that they had no idea if this was going to work and actually have an application area.