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A Demonstration of Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experiences

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Manipulating a virtual object with appropriate passive haptic cues provides a satisfying sense of presence in virtual reality. However, scaling such experiences to support multiple virtual objects is a challenge as each one needs to be accompanied with a precisely-located haptic proxy object. We showcase a solution that overcomes this limitation by hacking human perception. Our framework for repurposing passive haptics, called haptic retargeting, leverages the dominance of vision when our senses conflict. With haptic retargeting, a single physical prop can provide passive haptics for multiple virtual objects. We introduce three approaches for dynamically aligning physical and virtual objects: body manipulation, world manipulation and a hybrid technique which combines both world and body manipulation. This demo has been presented previously at CHI 2016.

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Mahdi Azmandian, Mark Hancock, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, Andrew D. Wilson. Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experiences. In Proc. of CHI 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858226
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Mahdi Azmandian, Mark Hancock, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, and Andrew D. Wilson. 2016. A Demonstration of Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experience. In Proc. CHI EA '16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2890265
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Brent E. Insko. 2001. Passive haptics significantly enhances virtual environments. Computer: 100.
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Sharif Razzaque, Zachariah Kohn, and Mary C Whitton. 2001. Redirected Walking. Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS: 289--294. Figure 4. Ring of Cubes Illusion World warping progressively maps a single physical cube to different virtual cubes arranged in an arc around the button, and within the user's reach.

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      ISS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
      November 2016
      554 pages
      ISBN:9781450342483
      DOI:10.1145/2992154
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      1. haptics
      2. perception
      3. virtual reality

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      • (2021)VERITAS: Mind-Mapping in Virtual Reality2021 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN)10.23919/iLRN52045.2021.9459348(1-8)Online publication date: 17-May-2021
      • (2020)Improving Virtual Reality Ergonomics Through Reach-Bounded Non-Linear Input AmplificationProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376687(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
      • (2018)Towards virtual reality infinite walkingACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/3197517.320129437:4(1-13)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2018

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