NVIDIA wants its DirectStylus to feel just like a pen or pencil

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Drawing on a tablet is a novel idea, but lacks a lot of the nuance we get when putting a pen to paper. In many ways, the action of taking a stylus to screen is still foreign to us. NVIDIA is attempting to change all that with their DirectStylus, and from the looks of it, they’re succeeding. With DirectStylus on the Tegra NOTE 7, we get closer than ever to recreating the pen-and-paper experience. The DirectStylus lets you create a type of brush stroke based on pressure; press hard for a broad stroke, a bit lighter for a pen stroke.

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One of the advantages to drawing on paper is that there are subtle nuances that might not be so easily captured digitally. This is because with tools like pencil, pen, brushes, and etc., we can vary the degree of pressure we apply when we draw, which will result in different strokes. The digital world is starting to catch up in terms of such features, and NVIDIA’s DirectStylus is one of them. The DirectStylus was launched in 2013 and NVIDIA recently took to their blog to show off the stylus, along with some of the artwork that has been the result of said device. Like we mentioned earlier, the advantages to drawing on paper are the subtle nuances that comes when people put pen/pencil to paper, and that is one of the features of the DirectStylus.

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