Experience Mars through multimodal haptics: The Touch at the Museum of Science in Milan
WEART partnered with Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci to develop The Touch, a multiplayer immersive experience that blends virtual reality with advanced haptics. Through the integration of TouchDIVER Pro, visitors are placed inside a collaborative mission on Mars where interaction is not only visual but physical, bringing a new dimension to how museum audiences engage with science.
Case Study
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Goals
The project was designed to redefine how visitors experience scientific content by turning exploration into an active, collaborative process. By combining gameplay mechanics with scientifically grounded scenarios, the goal is to increase engagement, stimulate problem-solving, and create a memorable learning experience that goes beyond traditional exhibition formats.
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TouchDIVER adoption
The choice of TouchDIVER Pro was driven by its capability to reproduce realistic touch sensations through a combination of force feedback, textures, and temperature variations. This allows users to interact with virtual elements in a way that closely mirrors real-world manipulation, making it particularly effective for an experience centered on exploration and discovery.
Key impact of TouchDIVER Pro
Introducing haptic feedback into the experience fundamentally changes how users perceive and interact with the virtual environment. Instead of simply observing, players actively feel surfaces, tools and objects, which strengthens immersion and reinforces learning.
As a result:
- Users become more engaged through direct interaction
- Scientific concepts are easier to grasp through experiential learning
- Team-based gameplay is enhanced by more natural and intuitive interactions
The Touch demonstrates how combining haptics with VR can transform cultural spaces into interactive environments, where education and entertainment coexist in a more compelling and impactful way.
About
Museo della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci is Italy’s largest science and technology museum, set in the cloisters of a 16th-century Olivetan monastery. Spanning 50,000 sq m, it brings together interactive exhibitions on everything from physics and astronomy to transport and genetics, plus the world-famous Leonardo da Vinci Galleries.
Keiron Interactive is Rome-based studio specializing in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, gamification and real-time web apps since 2016, delivering immersive experiences across entertainment, fitness, education and enterprise.
Discover TouchDIVER Pro
TouchDIVER Pro glove features six actuation points, including all five fingers and the palm, and current WEART’s unique multimodal haptic feedback, which provides lifelike force feedback, textures rendering and thermal cues, with precise hand tracking.