When people hear the name Jeff Bezos, they instantly pay attention a little more. Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, one of the most successful companies in the world. Amazon not only is a mass distributor of any and all products, but has their own music service, movie and TV streaming service, and even their own shipping services. Anything that this company tries to get into, they are immediately successful. This has to do with not only their incredible customer reach, but their loyal customers that are always pleased with their services.
Bezos was most recently at the re:Mars conference in Las Vegas, one of the biggest technical conferences in the country. HaptX was also there, a company that has been working on user-controller VR gloves for sometime now. Bezos had the opportunity to be one of the first people outside of the company to try the bimanual hand setup that Haptx has made.
This setup is different than the first glove they had for one big reason. In this model, you are using both hands normally rather than just one.
After Bezos tweeted this video, it was evident that he was enjoying himself while doing simple tasks with his hands through teleportation. This is not only a breakthrough for HaptX to have someone of Bezos’ stature to recognize and enjoy their product, but this could potentially be a breakthrough for VR and Amazon.
Although Bezos was not wearing a VR headset while using these hands, we are sure that the experience would’ve much more rememberable and immersive if he were wearing a headset.
The future of this company could very well rely on what the manual labors and and manual labors see use for with teleporting hands. Clearly there will be a market for the hands in the gaming world once they slim down, there could very well be a possibility that these hands are used by bigger business in the short future.
These hands could be used in a plethora of ways that most people hadn’t even thought of yet. If you had access to these hands full time, imagine the work you could get done. There is the obvious uses of the hands, like making yourself a sandwich while you sit in front of the TV, but there is a lot more that could be done that could vastly improve safety. Defusing a bomb, welding something large, hammering a nail in a tight spot, or even repairing the exterior of an international space station.
These all require the precision that human hands are constantly providing, therefore a human must be there to solve the problem. In the future, this may always not be the case. We know virtual reality headsets are only getting better, and the market for buyers is only growing. It will be important for companies to keep improving through the years, but you have access to a business-grade virtual headset, and HaptX gloves ready to use, the world is at your fingertips.
