Simulating haptic feedback using vision: A survey of research and applications of pseudo-haptic feedback

  • Authors:
  • Anatole Lécuyer

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a survey of the main results obtained in the field of “pseudo-haptic feedback”: a technique meant to simulate haptic sensations in virtual environments using visual feedback and properties of human visuo-haptic perception. Pseudo-haptic feedback uses vision to distort haptic perception and verges on haptic illusions. Pseudo-haptic feedback has been used to simulate various haptic properties such as the stiffness of a virtual spring, the texture of an image, or the mass of a virtual object. This paper describes the several experiments in which these haptic properties were simulated. It assesses the definition and the properties of pseudo-haptic feedback. It also describes several virtual reality applications in which pseudo-haptic feedback has been successfully implemented, such as a virtual environment for vocational training of milling machine operations, or a medical simulator for training in regional anesthesia procedures.