Wearable gloves including a fabric material worn by a user, a position sensor, and a matrix with a plurality of voids that each include at least one fluidic actuator

A wearable glove for interacting with virtual objects in an artificial-reality environment, the wearable glove comprising:

• a fabric material configured to be worn on a hand of a user;
• a matrix made of an elastic polymer, the matrix including a plurality of voids, each respective void (i) including at least one fluidic actuator and (ii) not being fluidically coupled with a positionally adjacent void of the plurality of voids included in the matrix;
• a tendon that is positioned adjacent to a joint on a digit of the user when an outer substrate is worn on the user's hand, the tendon configured to be stiffened to restrict movement of the user's digit;
• and
• one or more position sensors configured to monitor positional data used to a determine a position of the wearable glove within a three-dimensional space,
• wherein the wearable glove is configured to control the at least one fluidic actuator and the tendon to simulate real-world interactions in the artificial-reality environment based on the position of the wearable glove as compared to respective positions of virtual objects within the artificial-reality environment.

A wearable glove for interacting with virtual objects in an artificial-reality environment, the wearable glove comprising:

• a fabric material configured to be worn on a hand of a user;
• a matrix made of an elastic polymer, the matrix including a plurality of voids, each respective void (i) including at least one fluidic actuator and (ii) not being fluidically coupled with a positionally adjacent void of the plurality of voids included in the matrix;
• a bend sensor configured to sense a bending movement at one of the user's digits while an outer substrate is worn by the user,
• one or more position sensors configured to monitor positional data used to a determine a position of the wearable glove within a three-dimensional space,
• wherein the wearable glove is configured to control the at least one fluidic actuator to simulate real-world interactions in the artificial-reality environment based on (i) the position of the wearable glove as compared to respective positions of virtual objects within the artificial-reality environment and (ii) the bending movement sensed by the bend sensor.