[August 31, 2010]

Immersion's TouchSense® Technology Licensed by Toshiba

Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR), the leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, today announced that Toshiba (News - Alert) Corporation, a world leader in high technology, has licensed Immersion's TouchSense® system. The license gives Toshiba the rights to use Immersion's haptics technology to enhance products by engaging the sense of touch to create innovative and satisfying user experiences.

The first product to integrate Immersion's haptics is the libretto® W100, the world's first dual-touch screen Windows mini-notebook PC. The ultra-portable features two multi-touch screens that can work independently or together, giving users flexibility in how to use them. Its UI design includes six virtual keyboard modes and a virtual touch pad leveraging Immersion's haptics to provide touch feedback when keys are selected, making typing fast, accurate and easy. The libretto W100 is currently available in selected countries.

"This license with Toshiba is a significant milestone and marks a key entry into the portable computing market," said Immersion's Dennis Sheehan, vice president of marketing. "The integration of our haptics in this innovative notebook follows Immersion's success in mobile phones -- simply put, touch feedback greatly improves touch screens. As a recognized design leader, Toshiba is providing better user experiences and we're excited to work with them."

To address the growth of touch-based interfaces in this market, Immersion today also announced in a separate release, a new product in the TouchSense 2000 Series, the TouchSense 2500.

About Imersion (www.immersion.com)

Founded in 1993, Immersion (NASDAQ: IMMR) is the leading innovator in haptics technology; the company's touch feedback solutions deliver a more compelling sense of the digital world. Using Immersion's high-fidelity haptic systems, partners can transform user experiences with unique and customizable touch feedback effects; excite the senses in games, videos and music; restore "mechanical" feel by providing intuitive and unmistakable confirmation; improve safety by overcoming distractions while driving or performing a medical procedure; and expand usability when audio and visual feedback are ineffective. Immersion's TouchSense technology provides haptics in mobile phone, automotive, gaming, medical and consumer electronics products from world-class companies. With over 900 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries, Immersion helps bring the digital universe to life.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of Immersion Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

All statements, other than the statements of historical fact, are statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the statement that the license with Toshiba is a significant milestone and marks a key entry into the portable computing market.

Immersion's actual results might differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with Immersion's business, which include, but are not limited to, the effects of the current macroeconomic climate; delay in or failure to achieve commercial demand for Immersion's products or third party products incorporating Immersion's technologies, such as the libretto W100; a delay in or failure to achieve the acceptance of force feedback as a critical user experience; and unanticipated difficulties and challenges encountered in product development efforts by Immersion and Toshiba. Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond the control of Immersion.

For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the risk factors listed in Immersion's most current Form 10-Q and Form 10-K, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Immersion's beliefs and predictions as of the date of this release. Immersion disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business, or any other developments occurring after the date of this release.

Immersion, the Immersion logo and TouchSense are trademarks of Immersion Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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