User Redirection and Direct Haptics in Virtual Environments

Carvalheiro, Cristiano; Nóbrega, Rui; Silva, Hugo da; Rodrigues, Rui

doi:10.1145/2964284.2964293

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“…For application scenarios we build upon our findings as a starting point and plan to develop advanced modes for terrain design and also for sculpting where an interesting area of research could investigate how to restore previously modeled structures by augmenting the visualization with a translucent "ghost" model for fast and easy re-modeling. Regarding the redirection of haptics, which is the "warped mapping between the real and virtual worlds, such that the relation between the user and the virtual space can be different from the one between the user and the real space" [5]. With redirected haptics, virtual worlds can be experienced in a different way than the actual real-world model.…”

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Fröhlich

Alexandrovsky

Stabbert

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Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Augmented sandboxes have been used as playful and educative tools to create, explore and understand complex models. However, current solutions lack interactive capabilities, missing more immersive experiences such as exploring the sand landscape from a first person perspective. We extend the interaction space of augmented sandboxes into virtual reality (VR) to offer a VR-environment that contains a landscape, which the user designs via interacting with real sand while wearing a virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD). In this paper, we present our current VR-sandbox system consisting of a box with sand, triple Kinect depth sensing, a virtual reality HMD, and hand tracking, as well as an interactive world simulation use case for exploration and evaluation. Our work explores the important and timely topics how to integrate rich haptic interaction with natural materials into VR and how to track and present real physical materials in VR. In a qualitative evaluation with nine experts from computer graphics, game design, and didactics we identified potentials, limitations as well as future application scenarios.

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“…For example, virtual worlds can be experienced to be much larger than the actual model or the effort of moving the arms across the model could be reduced. This can be achieved by warping the virtual dimensions so that users don't recognize the differences, which represents an interesting line of research [5,17,23].…”

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Stabbert

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…Sutherland studied a head‐mounted VR system, a device that sends virtual visual information to the user dimensionally and realistically. Research on VR later evolved to study haptic systems; motion platforms; and VR simulators that enhance user immersion, realism and presence …”

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“…Research related to haptic interfaces has also been conducted to enable users to interact with virtual environments using their hands and to receive tactile sensations through force feedback interfaces, like electrical actuators . Carvalheiro et al studied a haptic interaction system that provides users with the experience of controlling an object in a realistic virtual environment by combining a real‐to‐virtual mapping system and a device that tracks the hand and physical object movement. Additionally, researchers have also studied ways to enhance immersion within virtual environments by providing tactile feedback to the user, as with low‐cost VR‐based smart gloves .…”

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“…VR has been advanced by several studies. These include HMD system that transmits the 3D visual information of a VR scene, an auditory/haptic system that maximizes the immersion by incorporating all five senses of the user, including auditory and tactile, and analysis of presence in terms of perception and consciousness . Haptic systems, in particular, are being developed from hand‐centered tactile response using gloves to a system that provides feedback on walking .…”

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MAVE: Maze‐based immersive virtual environment for new presence and experience

Lee

Jeong

Kim

2017

Computer Animation & Virtual

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To provide users with a sense of presence and experience, this study presents a maze-based immersive virtual environment (MAVE). MAVE consists of a new immersive virtual scene and immersive interaction optimized for such maze. The algorithm for calculating a finite maze is defined to automatically generate diverse maze patterns; an interactive editing function and sketch-based maze retrieval make it easier to generate maze patterns intuitively. With the integration of these procedures, MAVE proposes a user-oriented maze terrain authoring system that can reconstruct two-dimensional maze patterns into three-dimensional maze terrains. It also provides an interaction system that enables users to be immersed in a broad virtual maze environment within a limited space. As an Arduino-based portable walking simulator, this system detects the user's steps as he or she walks in place and controls the user's motions in the virtual environment. This study confirms through various technical and statistical experiments that MAVE can lead to new research on immersion enhancement without virtual reality sickness via virtual reality content.

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X‐person asymmetric interaction in virtual and augmented realities

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Kang

Jeon

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Computer Animation & Virtual

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This study proposes simple, highly immersive x-person asymmetric interactions that account for the experience type characteristics of asymmetric virtual environments, jointly experienced by virtual reality (VR) users and augmented reality (AR) users. The first person interactions for VR users are performed through the use of hand gestures, and they define a manipulation process that maps the gestures and object control scheme to provide intuitive interactions with the virtual environment and objects. The third person interaction for AR users is designed to view the overall virtual scene and recognize and judge situations to allow for intuitive communication and interactions among the virtual environment, objects, and users based on a touch interface. The core goal of this process is to provide all users who participate in asymmetric virtual environments with satisfying experiences and presence through individualized experience modes and roles. To this end, an application that uses the x-person asymmetric interactions was created. Furthermore, a survey experiment is performed to statistically analyze the interactions and verify that they provided users with a satisfactory experience, that is, a satisfactory sense of presence and social presence in each user's situation.

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User Redirection and Direct Haptics in Virtual Environments

Cited by 37 publications

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