TY - GEN
T1 - Heavy Haptics
T2 - 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies and Applications, iMETA 2023
AU - Schober, Oliver
AU - Diephuis, Jeremiah
AU - Wintersberger, Philipp
AU - Hochleitner, Wolfgang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Virtual Reality technologies have drastically improved over the last few years, but the physical experience of interacting with virtual objects and mass is still quite limited. Specially developed controllers and gloves technically exist, but most are still in development and not yet established as readily available industry solutions. This paper introduces 'Heavy Haptics', a novel haptic approach that combines offset tracking, rumble feedback and pressure sensors to elicit the sensation of weight without the need for dedicated hardware. We review related works on weight simulation to derive our design and present a quantitative evaluation method. To assess the system, we conducted a small pilot experiment with four VR experts. Our results suggest that Heavy Haptics is comparable to more sophisticated solutions using dedicated hardware. However, additional studies confirming our results need to be conducted in the future.
AB - Virtual Reality technologies have drastically improved over the last few years, but the physical experience of interacting with virtual objects and mass is still quite limited. Specially developed controllers and gloves technically exist, but most are still in development and not yet established as readily available industry solutions. This paper introduces 'Heavy Haptics', a novel haptic approach that combines offset tracking, rumble feedback and pressure sensors to elicit the sensation of weight without the need for dedicated hardware. We review related works on weight simulation to derive our design and present a quantitative evaluation method. To assess the system, we conducted a small pilot experiment with four VR experts. Our results suggest that Heavy Haptics is comparable to more sophisticated solutions using dedicated hardware. However, additional studies confirming our results need to be conducted in the future.
KW - haptics
KW - simulation
KW - virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85178029802&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/iMETA59369.2023.10294811
DO - 10.1109/iMETA59369.2023.10294811
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85178029802
T3 - 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies and Applications, iMETA 2023
BT - 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies and Applications, iMETA 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 September 2023 through 20 September 2023
ER -