Novint科技有限公司（NVNT）是商业化计算机3D触摸技术领域的先锋企业。公司正在研制新的产品，旨在将计算技术与高保真交互三维触摸功能相结合，最新产品Novint Falcon一经推出便荣获大奖。该产品是第一款具备逼真3D触摸效果及反作用力效果的游戏控制器。 

人类的触觉是连接人类与世界的桥梁，也是我们感知事物不可缺少的一部分，包括身体和心理。电脑游戏整合了复杂的图像和音响效果，但恰恰缺少了逼真触觉效果。以往3D触觉硬件设备的高昂造价限制了该项技术的拓展，而Novint Falcon的诞生使这一情况有所改观，该产品是一款小型自动机械设备，价格合理，能够适应大部分用户的消费水平。Falcon允许游戏玩家能够感受到重量、形状、纹理、尺寸、动感以及反作用力，其效果可与价格数千美金的商务设备相媲美。使用Falcon，玩家可以真实地感受到角色的动作，而不仅仅是操纵鼠标或仪表来控制游戏。比如，玩篮球游戏时，玩家能够在投篮的同时感受到篮球的重量；玩高尔夫球游戏时，能够感受到挥杆的幅度以及对高尔夫球的撞击效果；玩枪战游戏时，可以感受到枪械的后坐力；以及虚拟物体和环境的特质，使得游戏体验更加自然和逼真。

 

Novint公司有着独特的优势将这项革命性的技术加以推广。作为商务触摸应用的顶级开发企业，Novint的客户包括洛克希德·马丁、克莱斯勒、雪佛龙、美孚、Aramco、以及哈佛大学。公司位于美国新墨西哥州的阿尔伯克基，与美国Sandia国家实验室有5年的研究合作，该实验室开发出了全世界第一款3D触觉软件，以及唯一的既适用于个人用户又适合商务用户的低成本（1000美元以内）高保真硬件设备。

 

Novint Technologies, Inc. (NVNT) is the pioneer of 3D touch for consumer computing. Novint is developing a new category of products that add high-fidelity interactive three-dimensional touch to computing, beginning with our introduction of the award-winning Novint Falcon. The Novint Falcon is a first-of-a-kind game controller that lets you experience realistic 3D touch and force feedback when playing touch-enabled games.

 

Our sense of touch connects us to the world around us and is an integral part of how we experience things, both physically and emotionally. Games have incorporated increasingly sophisticated graphics and sound design, but none have added realistic touch. In the past, the expense of 3D touch (haptic) hardware made the technology cost-prohibitive, but the Novint Falcon, which is, in essence, a small robot, is designed to be an affordable consumer device. The Falcon allows players to feel weight, shape, texture, dimension, dynamics and force feedback, performing comparably to commercial devices that cost thousands of dollars. Using the Falcon, players feel a character’s actions instead of controlling a game through mouse clicks or meters. Players feel the weight of a basketball as they shoot it towards a hoop – the momentum and impact as they swing a virtual golf club and strike a ball – the recoil of a weapon – or the characteristics of virtual objects and environments, making gameplay more natural and realistic.

 

Novint is uniquely qualified to bring this revolutionary technology to market. As a leading developer of commercial touch applications, Novint has worked with clients including Lockheed Martin, Chrysler, Chevron, Mobil, Aramco, and Harvard University. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Novint has an exclusive worldwide license to over five years of pioneering research from Sandia National Laboratories, which developed some of the first 3D touch software in the world, and has developed the only low-cost (sub $1000) high-fidelity hardware solution available for consumer or commercial applications.