Haptic retargeting video showcase: Dynamic repurposing of passive haptics for enhanced virtual reality experience
Mahdi Azmandian, Mark Hancock, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, and Andrew D. Wilson. In Proc. CHI EA, pp. 3-3, 2016.
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Abstract
Manipulating a virtual object with appropriate passive haptic cues provides a satisfying sense of presence in virtual reality. However, scaling such experiences to support multiple virtual objects is a challenge as each one needs to be accompanied with a precisely-located haptic proxy object. We showcase a solution that overcomes this limitation by hacking human perception. Our framework for repurposing passive haptics, called haptic retargeting, leverages the dominance of vision when our senses conflict. With haptic retargeting, a single physical prop can provide passive haptics for multiple virtual objects. We introduce three approaches for dynamically aligning physical and virtual objects: body manipulation, world manipulation and a hybrid technique which combines both world and body warping. This video accompanies our CHI paper.
Bibtex entry
@INPROCEEDINGS { Azmandian:2016:HRV:2851581.2889441,
AUTHOR = { Mahdi Azmandian and Mark Hancock and Hrvoje Benko and Eyal Ofek and Andrew D. Wilson },
TITLE = { Haptic Retargeting Video Showcase: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experience },
BOOKTITLE = { Proc. CHI EA },
SERIES = { CHI EA '16 },
YEAR = { 2016 },
ISBN = { 978-1-4503-4082-3 },
LOCATION = { Santa Clara, California, USA },
PAGES = { 3--3 },
NUMPAGES = { 1 },
DOI = { 10.1145/2851581.2889441 },
ACMID = { 2889441 },
PUBLISHER = { ACM },
ADDRESS = { New York, NY, USA },
KEYWORDS = { haptics, perception, virtual reality },
}