Novint科技有限公司（NVNT）是商業(yè)化計算機3D觸摸技術領域的先鋒企業(yè)。公司正在研制新的產品，旨在將計算技術與高保真交互三維觸摸功能相結合，最新產品Novint Falcon一經推出便榮獲大獎。該產品是第一款具備逼真3D觸摸效果及反作用力效果的游戲控制器。?

人類的觸覺是連接人類與世界的橋梁，也是我們感知事物不可缺少的一部分，包括身體和心理。電腦游戲整合了復雜的圖像和音響效果，但恰恰缺少了逼真觸覺效果。以往3D觸覺硬件設備的高昂造價限制了該項技術的拓展，而Novint Falcon的誕生使這一情況有所改觀，該產品是一款小型自動機械設備，價格合理，能夠適應大部分用戶的消費水平。Falcon允許游戲玩家能夠感受到重量、形狀、紋理、尺寸、動感以及反作用力，其效果可與價格數千美金的商務設備相媲美。使用Falcon，玩家可以真實地感受到角色的動作，而不僅僅是操縱鼠標或儀表來控制游戲。比如，玩籃球游戲時，玩家能夠在投籃的同時感受到籃球的重量；玩高爾夫球游戲時，能夠感受到揮桿的幅度以及對高爾夫球的撞擊效果；玩槍戰(zhàn)游戲時，可以感受到槍械的后坐力；以及虛擬物體和環(huán)境的特質，使得游戲體驗更加自然和逼真。

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Novint公司有著獨特的優(yōu)勢將這項革命性的技術加以推廣。作為商務觸摸應用的頂級開發(fā)企業(yè)，Novint的客戶包括洛克希德·馬丁、克萊斯勒、雪佛龍、美孚、Aramco、以及哈佛大學。公司位于美國新墨西哥州的阿爾伯克基，與美國Sandia國家實驗室有5年的研究合作，該實驗室開發(fā)出了全世界第一款3D觸覺軟件，以及唯一的既適用于個人用戶又適合商務用戶的低成本（1000美元以內）高保真硬件設備。

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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.

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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.

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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.?

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