Immersion Corporation is joining the Symbian Foundation, to bring its touch feedback technology to all Symbian platform developers. As a result, the company made its TouchSense API available for the Foundation member companies.
Immersion argues that their haptics technology improves efficiency and intuitiveness by providing “unmistakable confirmation of touchscreen presses, adds improved accuracy and depth.”
Separately, they are also offering haptic player for touch feedback effects to the Symbian Foundation community.
For the record, more than 65 million handsets with Immersion’s high-fidelity, programmable haptics technology have shipped around the world so far.