Providing Haptics to Walls &amp; Heavy Objects in Virtual Reality by Means of Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Lopes, Pedro; You, Sijing; Cheng, Lung-Pan; Marwecki, Sebastian; Baudisch, Patrick

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025600

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“…Such integration would allow the system to move into the "World Partially Modelled" range of the EWK spectrum, providing more interesting modes of user interaction. For example, by using markerless feature detection of a scene, a streaming user could recreate an environment and send a three-dimensional map of real space to viewers, who could "touch" its surfaces through haptic controls, as demonstrated in different Virtual Reality studies, such as Lopes et al [29]. Furthermore, since the panoramic background can feature different synaesthetic displays such as IR heat-maps, haptic interaction could be extended to feature thermoception.…”

Section: Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

StreamSpace: Pervasive Mixed Reality Telepresence for Remote Collaboration on Mobile Devices

Ryskeldiev

Cohen

Herder

2018

Journal of Information Processing

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We present a system that exploits mobile rotational tracking and photospherical imagery to allow users to share their environment with remotely connected peers "on the go." We surveyed related interfaces and developed a unique groupware application that shares a mixed reality space with spatially-oriented live video feeds. Users can collaborate through realtime audio, video, and drawings in a virtual space. The developed system was tested in a preliminary user study, which confirmed an increase in spatial and situational awareness among viewers as well as reduction in cognitive workload. Believing that our system provides a novel style of collaboration in mixed reality environments, we discuss future applications and extensions of our prototype.

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Section: Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

StreamSpace: Pervasive Mixed Reality Telepresence for Remote Collaboration on Mobile Devices

Ryskeldiev

Cohen

Herder

2018

Journal of Information Processing

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“…This means that our approach flips typical gaming mechanics where players control their avatar's movements, and instead reflects the movements of the virtual avatar onto the player's body. This sets this work apart from previous work in EMS-based haptic feedback in VR [37,38,40], since we look into reflecting the avatar's movements on the player's body in non-interactive scenarios, i.e., users are passive during cutscenes and receive the system's output rather than providing input themselves.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ElectroCutscenes: Realistic Haptic Feedback in Cutscenes of Virtual Reality Games Using Electric Muscle Stimulation

Khamis

Schuster

George

et al. 2019

25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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Cutscenes in Virtual Reality (VR) games enhance story telling by delivering output in the form of visual, auditory, or haptic feedback (e.g., using vibrating handheld controllers). Since they lack interaction in the form of user input, cutscenes would significantly benefit from improved feedback. We introduce the concept and implementation of ElectroCutscenes, where Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) is leveraged to elicit physical user movements to different body parts to correspond to those of personal avatars in cutscenes of VR games while the user stays passive. Through a user study (N=22) in which users passively received kinesthetic feedback resulting in involuntarily movements, we show that Elec-troCutscenes significantly increases perceived presence and realism compared to controller-based vibrotactile and no haptic feedback.

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“…Unfortunately, AHF devices are usually too large, complex, expensive and/or weak for use outside of research. Through the acknowledgment of issues in PHF and AHF researchers continue to advance VR haptics by combining PHF and AHF [15,16,23], and introducing entirely new approaches [2,12,49,50,76]. While these approaches offer some noticeable benefits over traditional VR haptics issues like complexity, interaction limitations and weak feedback persist.…”

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“…Another approach to general haptics removes physical interactions with objects altogether. One method uses electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to mimic the feel of interacting with virtual objects [49,50]. A series of user studies showed the use of EMS for haptics contributes to higher realism, when compared to no haptic feedback [49] and vibrotactile feedback [50].…”

Section: Diverse Haptic Systems For Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One method uses electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to mimic the feel of interacting with virtual objects [49,50]. A series of user studies showed the use of EMS for haptics contributes to higher realism, when compared to no haptic feedback [49] and vibrotactile feedback [50]. Ultrahaptics [12,76], provides physical stimulation with a matrix of ultrasonic speakers that create converging frequencies at points in 3D space.…”

Section: Diverse Haptic Systems For Vrmentioning

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Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality with Deformation and Shape-Change

McClelland¹

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Past Virtual Reality (VR) research shows that haptic feedback increases presence and improves users' task performance. However, providing haptic feedback for multiple virtual objects usually requires complex, immobile systems, or multiple haptic props. We present a new approach that applies deformable, shape-changing devices to VR haptics, leveraging the dominance of human vision in VR to provide realistic haptic feedback with physical shape approximations. Our first study evaluates our HaptoBend prototype through an elicitation study. Results support the use of physical shape approximations and reveal important user preferences. We translate these results and past work into a Design Criteria to inform our second prototype, Adaptic. In our second study, we compare docking performance and adherence to our Design Criteria with Adaptic, a Razor Hydra Controller, and haptic props. We found Adaptic did well in satisfying our Design Criteria and had little difference in performance compared to the other haptic approaches.

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Providing Haptics to Walls & Heavy Objects in Virtual Reality by Means of Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Cited by 232 publications

References 18 publications

StreamSpace: Pervasive Mixed Reality Telepresence for Remote Collaboration on Mobile Devices

StreamSpace: Pervasive Mixed Reality Telepresence for Remote Collaboration on Mobile Devices

ElectroCutscenes: Realistic Haptic Feedback in Cutscenes of Virtual Reality Games Using Electric Muscle Stimulation

Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality with Deformation and Shape-Change

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