Project Number
- 112
Title
- Shared Haptic World
Description
- Simultaneous force-feedback virtual environment for two users.
Contact
- Hiroo Iwata
Affiliation
- University of Tsukuba
Address
- Institute of Engineering Mechanics
- Tsukuba 305, Japan
- +81.298.53.5362
- +81.298.53.5207 fax
- Tsukuba 305, Japan
- iwata@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1995
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Force feedback plays an important role in manipulation in virtual environments. This project, an evolution of a system demonstrated at The Edge at SIGGRAPH 94, is realized by two desktop force displays. Two users feel reaction forces simultaneously, which enables to cooperatively manipulate virtual objects."
- "Shared Haptic World was developed with a new software tool, VECS (Virtual Environment Construction System), for programmers of haptic virtual environments. VECS enables high update rates of force display in a complex virtual environment. It interconnects multiple force displays through a network interface."
- "Using VECS, an autonomous free-form surface has been developed. It features functions similar to those of living creatures, such as surface tension, that enables restoration to its original shape [and feeding and danger avoidance tendencies]."
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
Touch
- force feedback displays
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Secondary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- Collaboration.
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