The Geomagic Touch (formerly Sensable Phantom Omni) is the industry’s most widely deployed professional haptic device. Used in research, 3D modeling, OEM applications and more, Touch allows users to freely sculpt 3D clay, enhance scientific or medical simulations, increase productivity with interactive training, and easily maneuver mechanical components to produce higher quality designs.
Overview
The Touch is a mid-range professional haptic device. Used in research, 3D modeling, OEM applications and more, Touch allows users to freely sculpt 3D clay, enhance scientific or medical simulations, increase productivity with interactive training, and easily maneuver mechanical components to produce higher quality designs.
Touch is a motorized device that applies force feedback on the user’s hand, allowing them to feel virtual objects and producing true-to-life touch sensations as user manipulates on-screen 3D objects. Leading companies integrate the Touch and haptics into their work to achieve compelling solutions using the realistic sense of touch.
Touch can be used in diverse applications, including: simulation, training, skills assessment, rehearsal, virtual assembly, robotic control, collision detection, machine interface design, rehabilitation, mapping and dozens of other applications.
When used with the OpenHaptics toolkit, Touch allows developers to rapidly design and deploy haptic programs, do mash-ups into existing applications, try out new ideas, and create haptically enabled products. Touch is also sold as a component of Geomagic Freeform and Geomagic Sculpt.
Applications
Research and Development
Top universities and research centers worldwide are leading the way in developing haptically enabled applications, and they consistently choose Geomagic Touch for their work. Touch allows researchers to create a consistent user experience in applications for rehabilitation, multimedia, military, biomedical research and more.
Medical
Haptic devices play a vital part of many medical training and research applications. Using Geomagic Touch, surgeons can plan and rehearse by operating on a virtual patient model with life-like tissue reaction and accurate surgical tools. And curriculum-based medical training using the Touch provides important experience for students in a pre-clinical setting.
Training and Education
ScanTrainer, from UK-based MedaPhor, is a virtual-reality ultrasound training simulator that bridges the gap between textbook and patient by providing curriculum-based training in a pre-clinical setting. The latest generation animation and realistic haptic simulation techniques are combined with actual ultrasound scans to provide an extremely realistic scanning environment for highly effective training.
Features
- Portable design and compact footprint
- Compact force feedback workspace
- 6-degree-of-freedom positional sensing
- 3-degree-of-freedom force feedback
- USB Port
- Comfortable molded-rubber stylus with textured paint
- Removable Stylus
- Two integrated momentary stylus switches
- Stylus-docking inkwell
- Ergonomic design
- Supports OpenHaptics toolkit with QuickHaptics micro API
- Made of metal components and injection-molded plastics
- CE certified
Technical Specifications
The Geomagic® Touch™ (formerly known as Sensable Phantom Omni) product line of haptic devices makes it possible for users to touch and manipulate virtual objects. The Touch model is the most cost-effective haptic device available today. Portable design, compact footprint, and IEEE-1394a FireWire* port interface ensure quick installation and ease of use.
| Force feedback workspace | ~6.4 W x 4.8 H x 2.8 D in ~ 160 W x 120 H x 70 D mm |
| Range of motion | Hand movement pivoting at wrist |
| Nominal position resolution | > 450 dpi ~ 0.055 mm |
| Maximum exertable force at nominal position (orthogonal arms) | 0.75 lbf (3.3 N) |
| Stiffness |
X axis > 7.3 lbs / in (1.26 N / mm) |
| Force feedback | x, y, z |
| Position sensing [Stylus gimbal] | x, y, z (digital encoders) Pitch, roll, yaw (± 5% linearity potentiometers) |
| Interface | USB 2.0 |
