Generic Control Interface for Networked Haptic Virtual Environments

Authors:
Priscilla Ramsamy;Adrian Haffegee;Vassil Alexandrov
Affiliations:
Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Centre, The School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, United Kingdom;Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Centre, The School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, United Kingdom;Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Centre, The School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, United Kingdom
Venue:
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part II
Year:
2007

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Abstract

As Virtual Reality pushes the boundaries of the human computer interface new ways of interaction are emerging. One such technology is the integration of haptic interfaces (force-feedback devices) into virtual environments. This modality offers an improved sense of immersion to that achieved when relying only on audio and visual modalities. The paper introduces some of the technical obstacles such as latency and network traffic that need to be overcome for maintaining a high degree of immersion during haptic tasks. The paper describes the advantages of integrating haptic feedback into systems, and presents some of the technical issues inherent in a networked haptic virtual environment. A generic control interface has been developed to seamlessly mesh with existing networked VR development libraries.