Description
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.
Applications
MR. Dog: Mixed Reality Haptic Interaction with Virtual Dog was created with the Unity game engine as part of the FEEL TECH Wear project. With MR. Dog, it is possible to perform haptic communication that occurs during hand interaction with virtual objects, such as petting a virtual dog or tugging on a toy string, through the FEEL TECH Wear device. It is also possible to feed the virtual dog with dog food or take it for a walk using a real bottle or leash, and the FEEL TECH Wear device can do haptic augmentation to real objects. The haptic feedback in these interactions is real time rendered within the Unity game engine using the relative speed between the virtual hands and the virtual objects.
Collaborators
NTT DOCOMO, INC.
commissure, Inc.
SPLINE DESIGN HUB Corp.
Exhibitions & Publications
MWC24
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies
Media & Awards
https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/event/mwc2024/1573220.html
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240228/k10014372701000.html
https://www.euronews.com/video/2024/03/01/mwc-2024-we-could-soon-relive-our-happiest-memories-through-multi-sensory-xr-thanks-to-6g
https://www.tiktok.com/@geekynews/video/7340630125467290926
https://english.news.cn/20240301/479b945379864667a5c4a308bf7f6d33/c.html
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ntt-docomo-feel-tech-animal-exhibit-had-me-walking-a-virtual-dog
https://stuff.co.za/2024/02/26/fancy-a-game-of-doom-on-a-lawnmower/
https://bnnbreaking.com/tech/ntt-docomos-feel-tech-animal-debuts-at-mwc-barcelona-virtual-dogs-meet-haptic-feedback
SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies Official Selection for Laval Virtual
More Info
Referential information of FEEL TECH from NTT DOCOMO
