Engaging weight feedback for bimanual interaction

Abstract

The development of haptic display devices has brought a new level of immersion and realistic fidelity to virtual environments, allowing users to ‘feel’ the virtual world. In this paper, a virtual environment with bimanual haptic feedback for users will be demonstrated, both engaging the user with weight feedback of lifted objects and maintaining the stability of the interaction and simulation when passing objects between hands. Users can then complete a simple speed-training task in a virtual kitchen environment.