The revolutionary Orb® product line

3D the way it was meant to be! Our patented Orb® line of products is unsurpassed for its combination of features:

• Intuitive ease

• Full 3D control

• Low bandwidth requirements, yet high speed performance

• Persistence (the ability to pick up where you left off)

• Low desktop footprint (or work away from the desktop entirely)

• Low cost

• No special boards to install

• Immediate partial portability through the game controller icon of the Control Panel of your Windows PC (for full feature set, application software must at least support WINGS(tm))

• rugged and durable.

• USB connection

For 3D design, VR, web3D, animation, telemanipulation, gaming, or science and technology applications, Global Haptics has a solution for you!

NEWS:

November 07. Almost 80 patents, and counting, by outside parties, including Sony Corp., now cite our patents (listed in footer). Just one more indicator of the important value of our solution for 3D input. For more information on the relation between patent citation rates and company value, please see for example Putzler et al., 2007, Patent Citation and Corporate Market Value - A Study Using Social Network Analysis.

October 07. The Orb evaluation from Microsoft

Fall 07, All Orbs now come with full thumbstick capability, for added complementary control and menu selectioning! Alternately, users can get the Orb with 2 axis tilt sensing.

December 06, The Orb can now play music (alpha capability).

March 06, Global Haptics and Biz Viz. Global Haptics was part of a special consortium that includes the Intel Innovation Center in Albuquerque, as well as Sandia National Laboratories. The consortium aimed in part to utilize projection dome spaces in which view, scene, and object control are performed through the Orb by individual or multiple viewers.

January 06, Informal user group feedback overwhelmingly supports Orb as a real alternative to the controller options of today. In informal demos and talks, the 17 to 34 age demographic demonstrated rapid control mastery and indicated that if a variety of games or other software were available, they would purchase an Orb at an attainable price point.

The Orb® now works with the Torque Game Engine!