Designing a full-body customizable haptic interface using two-dimensional signal transmission
Taichi Furukawa, Nobuhisa Hanamitsu, Yoichi Kamiyama, Hideaki Nii, Charalampos Krekoukiotis, Kouta Minamizawa, Akihito Noda, Junko Yamada, Keiichi Kitamura, Daisuke Niwa, Yoshiaki Hirano · 2019
The concept of spatial computing has a high potential to augment our lives. We can imagine the expansion of the concept of spatial computing in the future as the expanded visual space will blend into our daily lives. In such a future, how do we feel and interact with another reality that overlaps with real space? We have researched this question from an approach using a haptic interface. We previously developed the Synesthesia Suit[Konishi et al. 2016]. This is a full body haptic suit that extends the VR experience of the game "Rez Infinite". It delivers the visual and musical experience of "Rez" to the whole body, and provides haptic feedback. However, the Synesthesia Suit is difficult to walk around in a physical space, due to the thick cables required for its operation. Basically it is especially suited for VR gaming and it was difficult to apply to spatial computing experience.