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The paper aims to present a new human-scale haptic device for virtual environment named Scaleable-SPIDAR (Space Interface Device for Artificial Reality), which can provides different aspects of force feedback sensations, associated mainly with weight, contact and inertia, to both hands within a cave-like space. Tensioned string techniques are used to generate such haptic sensations, while keeping the space transparent and unbulky. The device is scaleable so as to enclose different cave-like working space. Scaleable- SPIDAR is coupled with a large screen where a computer generated virtual world is displayed. The used approach is shown to be simple, safe and sufficiently accurate for human-scale virtual environment.
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Buoguila, L., Ishii, M., Sato, M. (2001). Scaleable SPIDAR: a haptic interface for human-scale virtual environments. In: Brewster, S., Murray-Smith, R. (eds) Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. Haptic HCI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2058. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44589-7_20
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