Advances in collaborative Haptic audio visual invironments

随着触觉技术的显著进步（任天堂Wii（http：//wii.nintendo.com/）、iPhone（http：//www.apple.com/iphone/）等），将触觉结合到虚拟环境中仍然处于起步阶段。如果我们学会如何捕捉、操纵和再现与现实几乎无法区分的触觉感官刺激，那么电子社会中广泛的人类活动，包括通信、教育、艺术、娱乐、商业和科学，都将永远改变。为了使该领域超越当今的最先进水平，许多商业和技术障碍需要克服。首先，需要商业模型/框架来使触觉设备实用、廉价和广泛可访问，最终目标是使触觉设备像计算机中的鼠标一样容易插入。此外，多点、多手和多人交互场景需要进一步研究，以达到诱人的丰富交互性。最后，我们不应该忘记，协作触摸和物理交互是触觉系统开发中的基本问题之一。通过触觉技术呈现物体的感觉，我们传达的信息可能反映了一种从未被探索过的基于物理的语言。

With the significant progress in haptic technologies (Nintendo Wii (http://wii.nintendo.com/), iPhone (http://www.apple.com/iphone/), etc.), the incorporation of haptics into virtual environments is still in its infancy. A wide range of the e-society's human activities, including communication, education, art, entertainment, commerce, and science, would forever change if we learn how to capture, manipulate, and reproduce haptic sensory stimuli that are nearly indistinguishable from reality. For the field to move beyond today's state of the art, many commercial and technological barriers are to be surmounted. First, business models/frameworks are needed to make haptic devices practical, inexpensive, and widely accessible with an ultimate goal to make a haptic device as easy to plug in as the mouse in a computer. Moreover, multipoint, multihand, and multiperson interaction scenarios need further investigation to reach enticingly rich interactivity. Finally, we should not forget that collaborative touch and physical interaction are among the fundamental questions in haptic systems development. By rendering how objects feel through haptic technology, we communicate information that might reflect a desire to speak a physically-based language that has never been explored before.