Exploring Rock Climbing in Mixed Reality Environments
Felix Kosmalla, André Zenner, Marco Speicher, Florian Daiber, Nico Herbig, Antonio Krüger · 2017
While current consumer virtual reality headsets can convey a strong feeling of immersion, one drawback is still the missing haptic feedback when interacting with virtual objects. In this work, we investigate the use of a artificial climbing wall as a haptic feedback device in a virtual rock climbing environment. It enables the users to wear a head-mounted display and actually climb on the physical climbing wall which conveys the feeling of climbing on a large mountain face.