Bristol, UK, and Poing, Germany. Ultrahaptics, a provider of mid-air touchless haptic technology, announced an agreement with EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, to distribute and market Ultrahaptics’ TOUCH Development Kit (UHDK5) and related microprocessors under its EBVchips program.
The UHDK5 development platform uses ultrasound to enable users to “feel” virtual buttons, switches, dials, and other objects in mid-air. This technology enables clients across all industries to evolve their user interfaces and create more immersive and differentiated services and user experiences.
The TOUCH Development Kit, created with the support of the European Commission Horizon 2020 program, offers designers and developers a complete hardware and software package with an architecture that can be readily embedded in product designs, from prototypes right through to volume production.
“This cooperation agreement is the next step for us, giving customers easy access to the development kit to be able to quickly build prototypes. Customization options come as part of the software along with a library of pre-programmed sensations,” said Steve Cliffe, CEO at Ultrahaptics. ‘EBVchips offers us the opportunity to scale the solution to the needs of the customer, strengthening our commitment to provide an easy-to-use and easy-to-buy solution to our customer base.”
“We are very excited to add Ultrahaptics to our EBVchips portfolio,” said Dr. Eckart Voskamp, director product innovations at EBV Elektronik (pictured at embedded world 2017 in March with Ultrahaptics business development manager Ruth Millar). “The unique solution Ultrahaptics offers allows developers to design-in touchless haptic feedback to a wide variety of applications, all of which can be supported by our expert team of technical sales specialists.”
