Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design

Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineering Design. There is evidence to suggest that the ad...

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Main Authors: Roper, Tessa, Lawson, Glyn, Abdullah, Che
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44250/
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description Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineering Design. There is evidence to suggest that the addition of haptic feedback may improve spatial judgements, but most commercially available haptic systems are impractical and unaffordable outside of specialist research settings and large enterprises. We describe the challenges for developing a multimodal VR system using only low-cost off-the-shelf technologies, and demonstrate a working prototype of a system which aims to overcome these issues.
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spelling nottingham-442502020-05-04T18:49:29Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44250/ Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design Roper, Tessa Lawson, Glyn Abdullah, Che Virtual Reality technologies are available at a lower cost than ever before. However, such systems are developed mainly for the consumer market, and inaccuracies in spatial judgements may make them unsuitable for specific applications like Engineering Design. There is evidence to suggest that the addition of haptic feedback may improve spatial judgements, but most commercially available haptic systems are impractical and unaffordable outside of specialist research settings and large enterprises. We describe the challenges for developing a multimodal VR system using only low-cost off-the-shelf technologies, and demonstrate a working prototype of a system which aims to overcome these issues. 2017-06-10 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Roper, Tessa, Lawson, Glyn and Abdullah, Che (2017) Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design. In: Designing Interactive Systems 2017 (DIS 2017), 10-14 June 2017, Edinburgh, UK. Virtual Reality; Multimodality; Haptic feedback; Engineering http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3079177 10.1145/3064857.3079177 10.1145/3064857.3079177 10.1145/3064857.3079177
spellingShingle Virtual Reality; Multimodality; Haptic feedback; Engineering
Roper, Tessa
Lawson, Glyn
Abdullah, Che
Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title_full Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title_fullStr Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title_full_unstemmed Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title_short Development of a low-cost multimodal VR system for engineering design
title_sort development of a low-cost multimodal vr system for engineering design
topic Virtual Reality; Multimodality; Haptic feedback; Engineering
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44250/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44250/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44250/