Project Number
- 120
Title
- Virtual Perambulator
Description
- Physical walking interface for interactive immersive virtual environments.
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
- "Simulation of virtual buildings, before they are physically constructed, is useful for designers and clients. With this novel interface device for walk-through simulation, the user perceives a 360-degree image of virtual space and a sense of walking while the position of the walker is fixed in the physical world."
- "The walker wears a head-mounted display, foot-mounted moni-directional sliding devices, and a hoop around the waist, which limits the walker's position. A specialized roller skate equipped with four casters enables two-dimensional motion. The device has a brake pad at the toe. When the walker steps forward, the brake pad generates friction force at the backward foot, and the friction force enhances haptic feedback."
- "The walker can freely change the direction of walking in the hoop. The length of the step is measured by an optical encoder connected to the caster. The virtual space is correlated with the motion of the feed and body and viewed in a head-mounted display."
Sight
- graphics workstation, head-mounted display
Sound
Touch
- perambulator footwear and constraining device
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
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- Visualization.
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