Title
Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe present Haptic Revolver, a handheld virtual reality controller that renders fingertip haptics when interacting with virtual surfaces. Haptic Revolver's core haptic element is an actuated wheel that raises and lowers underneath the finger to render contact with a virtual surface. As the user's finger moves along the surface of an object, the controller spins the wheel to render shear forces and motion under the fingertip. The wheel is interchangeable and can contain physical textures, shapes, edges, or active elements to provide different sensations to the user. Because the controller is spatially tracked, these physical features can be spatially registered with the geometry of the virtual environment and rendered on-demand. We evaluated Haptic Revolver in two studies to understand how wheel speed and direction impact perceived realism. We also report qualitative feedback from users who explored three application scenarios with our controller.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173574.3173660
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual Reality, Haptics
Control theory,Virtual machine,Virtual reality,Shear (sheet metal),Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Shear force,Rendering (computer graphics),Haptic technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.71
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Whitmire1678.02
Hrvoje Benko22576130.33
Christian Holz387856.58
Eyal Ofek41865106.07
Mike Sinclair576476.87