I tried a gadget that could totally change how you interact with your PC

Summary

Digital Trends visits Afference’s Boulder office and tests an early prototype of its neural haptics technology.

Reporter Jesse Lennox tries a single finger ring connected to a series of sound and augmented-reality demonstrations. The prototype translates inputs into electrical signals intended to create the sensation of interacting with a virtual object.

The hands-on report describes the limits of the early demonstrations as well as the moments that worked. Simple sound patterns initially feel similar; pairing the feedback with a moving virtual button produces a much more convincing sense of resistance.

The article places Afference’s work in the wider challenge of spatial computing: giving people useful physical feedback when an interface has no real surface to press.