Tactual Labs Co.
Tactual Labs Co. is a small company founded in 2012 that specializes in capacitive sensing and touch input technologies. Its PRISM™ technology enables real-time human body pose sensing and offers advanced pen inking capabilities, serving various markets including consumer electronics and robotics.
Company Overview
Tactual Labs Co. is a small business founded in 2012, specializing in capacitive sensing and touch input technologies. With a team size of 19, the company operates in the Computer Hardware industry and has established offices in New York, Toronto, Austin, Leesburg, and Portland. Tactual Labs focuses on enhancing user experience and productivity by bridging the accuracy and latency gap between digital and physical interactions.
Technologies
Tactual Labs Co. has developed PRISM™ technology, which enables real-time human body pose sensing on free-form surfaces. This technology supports simultaneous tracking of over 64 touch-points and more than 24 pen-points, allowing for advanced interaction capabilities. The PRISM™ Pen offers improved pen inking and pressure response at kHz-class sampling rates, delivering industry-leading 1 millisecond sensing for display applications. Additionally, PRISM™ can scale across both opaque and transparent displays up to 110 inches in size.
Products
The company's PRISM™ solution represents a new kind of RF sensing that innovates at the algorithm, sensor, and silicon level. Tactual Labs also offers PRISM™ Markers, which have a years-long battery life and are suitable for interactive whiteboards. Furthermore, the company has developed a next-generation pro-cap touch-module that operates at a 1 kHz scanning rate, significantly faster than the current industry standard of 60 to 85 Hz. Tactual Labs provides a touch/pen co-processor and developer toolkit to enhance existing software with physical interaction fidelity.
Market Applications
Tactual Labs Co. serves multiple markets, including consumer electronics, automotive, mixed reality, and robotics. The company's technologies are designed to track in-air, surface, and interior changes in humans, machines, displays, vehicles, and objects. By focusing on touch, stylus, and gestural human-to-computer input, Tactual Labs aims to improve interaction across various applications and devices.
Innovation and Development
Tactual Labs Co. emphasizes innovation in its product development, particularly in capacitive sensing and touch input processing. The company’s PRISM™ technology captures human motion at over 1,000 events per second, allowing devices to understand hand and body poses in 3D around any shaped surface. This focus on high-performance sensing technology supports the company's mission to enhance user interactions with digital systems.