Design and Development of a Low-cost Device for Weight and Center of Gravity Simulation in Virtual Reality
Monteiro, Diego and Liang, Hai-Ning and Wang, Xian and Xu, Wenge and Tu, Huawei (2021) Design and Development of a Low-cost Device for Weight and Center of Gravity Simulation in Virtual Reality. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 18th - 22nd Oct 2021, Montréal QC, Canada.
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Abstract
With rapid advances in virtual reality (VR) technology, the use of haptics has become important to allow users to feel the physical properties of virtual objects. Current research has focused mainly on either weight variation or changing the center of gravity, which limits the simulation potential and may affect the feeling of immer- sion. This research explores the design and development of a device that can simulate both weight and center of gravity using low-cost components. Through an iterative design process and continuous testing with users, we arrived at a final prototype, FluidWeight, a device that can be attached to a typical VR handheld controller. FluidWeight uses fluid, which is transported from a central storage to a receptacle attached to the controller. A final experiment shows that users enjoyed using it because it could help increase the sense of realism in VR applications.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Identification Number: | 10.1145/3462244.3479907 |
| Dates: | Date Event 26 July 2021 Accepted 18 October 2021 Published Online |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Virtual Reality, Force Feedback, Haptics, Weight Distribution, Center of Gravity, Games. |
| Subjects: | CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-01 - engineering > CAH10-01-01 - engineering (non-specific) CAH10 - engineering and technology > CAH10-01 - engineering > CAH10-01-08 - electrical and electronic engineering CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Wenge Xu |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2021 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 12:52 |
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12292 |
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