Research presentation: research supported by our technology to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technologies on 28 July 2024

Arata Horie, our CTO, and Michiaki Umehara, XR Lead Engineer, will present the research below — which we supported technically — in the Emerging Technologies programme at SIGGRAPH 2024, the international conference on computer graphics and interaction.

Project

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) environ- ments 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 de- vice 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.

Project details here
https://s2024.conference-program.org/presentation/?id=gensub_418&sess=sess221

About SIGGRAPH 2024

SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest annual international conference on computer graphics and interaction.

Location: Denver, USA (also available online)
Dates: 28 July – 1 August 2024