Project Number
- 136
Title
- HapticWeb
Description
- World Wide Web client for enabling the feel of rigidity and weight from virtual objects.
Contact
- Hiroo Iwata
Affiliation
- University of Tsukuba
Address
- Institute of Engineering Mechanics
- Tsukuba Science City,
- Ibaraki Prefecture 305 Japan
- +81.298.53.5362
- +81.298.53.5207 fax
- Tsukuba Science City,
- iwata@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "HapticWeb" is a World Wide Web (WWW) client that enables users to feel the rigidity or weight of virtual objects.
- "It is based on a six-degree-of-freedom force feedback device, HapticMaster, which applies three-degree-of-freedom force and three-degree-of-freedom torque at the user's hand.
- Force feedback is rendered from a VRML dataset. Together with an authoring tool, users can represent the rigidity and weight of virtual objects through 3D icons.
Sight
- SGI Indy workstation, flat panel display, projector
Sound
Touch
- HapticMaster Force Feedback Joystick
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Remarks
- Video demonstration on Visual Proceedings CD-ROM.
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