FEEL TECH Wear : Enhancing Mixed Reality Experience with Wrist to Finger Haptic Attribution

FEEL TECH Wear is a system that facilitates haptic interactions while keeping most of the palm free, by presenting directional force through rotational skin-stretch distribution feedback to the wrist and providing texture sensation through vibration feedback to the fingertips. With advancements in hand tracking and passthrough technologies, hand interactions in Mixed Reality (MR) environments have become more accessible, necessitating palm-free haptic feedback methods that do not hinder interactions with real objects or impair vision-based hand tracking. The hardware of FEEL TECH Wear primarily consists of two components: a hand-mounted device for each hand and a control unit located at the back of the head. The hand-mounted device is equipped with four channels of rotational skin-stretch tactors at the wrist and vibration tactors at the thumb and index finger. Using FEEL TECH Wear, three applications have been realized: haptic feedback for virtual objects, haptic augmentation for real objects, and haptic guidance towards objects.

 

This project is collaborative project of Keio Media Design and NTT DOCOMO, INC.

commissure, inc. also provide basic technology and develop haptic presentation system with SPLINE DESIGN HUB, Corp.

Umehara, R., Taguchi, H., Horie, A., Kamiyama, Y., Sakamoto, S., Ishikawa, H., & Minamizawa, K. (2024, July). FEELTECH Wear: Enhancing Mixed Reality Experience with Wrist to Finger Haptic Attribution. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Emerging Technologies (pp. 1-2).

 

 

Our exibition is awarded as SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies Official Selection for Laval Vitual.

 

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