DOCOMO Announces World’s First Technology that Utilizes Human-Augmentation Platform for Sharing Haptic Information Between People

TOKYO, JAPAN, January 25, 2023 — NTT DOCOMO, INC., the Embodied Media Project led by Professor Kouta Minamizawa at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design and the Haptics Lab led by Professor Yoshihiro Tanaka at Nagoya Institute of Technology announced today they have developed a technology, called FEEL TECH™, that enables haptic information to be shared between people via a human-augmentation platform that DOCOMO unveiled in January 2022.

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