Project Number
- 206
Title
- Virtual Basketball
Description
- Interactive virtual environment with visual, auditory, and tactile feedback for virtual objects.
Contact
- Makoto Sato
Affiliation
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
Address
- Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
- 226 Yokohama
- 4259 Nagatsuta-cho
- Midori-ku, Japan
- 226 Yokohama
- msato@pi.titech.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "In this cave-like virtual space, participants use visual, auditory, and tactile sensations to perceive and interact with objects."
- "A new human-scale haptic device, Big SPIDAR, couples haptic sensations with vision and audition, and displays various aspects of force feedback associated mainly with contact, weight, and inertia."
- "In Virtual Basketball, players feel the weight and the spherical shape of the virtual ball at any position inside the playing space and experience the illusion of natural control over the ball."
Sight
- projection graphics
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- human-scale haptic feedback rigging
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
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