Kinesthetic Haptics Integration into Large-Scale Virtual Environments

  • Authors:

  • Urs Kunzler;Christoph Runde

  • Affiliations:

  • Berne University of Applied Sciences;Fraunhofer IPA

  • Venue:
  • WHC '05 Proceedings of the First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the hardware and software challenges to integrate kinesthetic haptic force feedback into large-scale (i.e. human-sized or larger) Virtual Environments (VE). Based on a literature survey of current haptic interface technologies, we introduce a qualitative schema for the evaluation of large-scale haptic immersion of various haptic display types suitable to be used within such large VEs. The other focus of our research concentrates on the elaboration of a distributed software architecture for an adaptable and extendable framework for VE haptics integration. In particular we describe a specific Haptics-Server prototype implementation integrated into a three wall passive stereo CAVE system currently being built at the Fraunhofer IPA institute in Stuttgart.