The emulation program supposedly runs Nintendo GameBoy games under Palm OS but in fact begins to delete all programs in the affected device. So far, Windows operating systems have been just images on a monitor. Now Immersion Corp. of San Jose, Calif., wants you to touch and feel Windows features. Immersion and partners have developed a feedback mouse. When the cursor slips into the groove of a slider bar, for example, the user feels the rubbery stretch of enlarging a window.
Many computer games require force-feedback controllers.
Now Immersion is trying to bring force feedback to desktop PCs. It was developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in Finland in the late 1980s. The client program runs on PCs and exchanges messages through an IRC server, which broadcasts to everyone in the chat. Inc. All rights reserved.