Introducing the 9D Stylus:

What is force feedback?

Most people are familiar with the term haptic feedback - when an object or device communicates information to a user via the sense of touch - for example when mobile phones or game controllers vibrate.

3D force feedback devices are a unique kind of haptic feedback devices. They use a specially designed robot to 'render' forces - to physically push back at a user. By controlling these robots accurately, its possible to replicate the sensations experienced when handling real world objects - we can fool our sense of touch into feeling that programs / simulated objects are solid. Its really hard to describe how weirdly realistic they are if you've never tried one for yourself!

Unfortunately, realatively few people have ever tried 3D force feedback systems - they are usually ultra-high end, bespoke-built robots only used in specific applications such as teleoperation (e.g. handling hazardous material), robotic surgery, or medical simulators. We started Openforce to fix this - to create force feedback systems accessible to everyone!

We think there could be hundreds more interesting use cases for this technology, and want the OpenForce project to be a community aimed at supporting innovators to explore all of them!

Our Services

Explore our cutting-edge force feedback technology services for spatial computing, VR, and AR systems.

Force Feedback Haptic devices

We specialise in the development and production of affordable high fidelity force feedback systems.

Our standard offering is a device called the 9D stylus! We also develop custom solutions based on the 9D stylus platform.

Senmag Haptics SDK for Unity

Our UnityEngine plugin handles all the hard bits for you, letting you focus on your application!

The Senmag Unity SDK is provided free alongside our force feedback devices!

Whether you need something to be developed from scratch, or just need some extra assistance to integrate into your existing application, our experienced engineers are here to help!

Application Development