Enhancing immersive visual-audio VR environments with tactile haptic actuators

这次NSERC Engage是首席研究员大卫王和触觉音频显示器（Tactile Audio Displays）公司之间的首次合作。这项工作将研究在完全沉浸式虚拟现实（VR）环境中，随着虚拟现实体验的逼真度不断提高，对用户损伤的影响。待研究的模式将包括各种沉浸式视频技术，3D双耳音频和触觉显示器，该显示器将声音转换为触觉，并通过嵌入式触觉声学致动器传输给用户。本研究的结果适用于游戏和训练应用程序。 Etienne是一家开发创新触觉技术的公司，目前正在与大学研究团队合作，评估其技术的有效性，并研究新的应用。滑铁卢大学的大卫王和他的研究团队在触觉、远程触觉、3D双耳音频以及手术触觉模拟器等应用领域进行了研究。 这项工作的重点是将工作纳入一个完全开发的模拟器，检查晕动病，以及它是否增加或减少触觉刺激。这将为触觉-视觉-音频VR环境的未来发展方向奠定基础。

This NSERC Engage is the first collaboration between the Principal Investigator, David Wang, and Tactile Audio Displays (TAD) Inc. This work will study the impact on user impairment in fully immersive virtual reality (VR) environments with respect to the increasing realism of the virtual reality experience. The modalities to be studied will include a variety of immersive video technologies, 3-D binaural audio and the TAD Haptic Displays, which translates sounds into tactile sensations which are transmitted to the user via a set with embedded tactile-acoustic actuators. The results of this study are applicable to both gaming and training applications. TAD is a company that has developed innovative haptic technologies and is working with university research teams to evaluate the efficacy of their technology as well as to study new applications. David Wang and his research team at the University of Waterloo have conducted research in the areas of haptics, tele-haptics, 3D binaural audio as well as applications such as surgical haptic simulators. The focus of this work is on incorporating work on a fully developed simulator to examine motion sickness and whether it is increased or decreased by tactile stimulation. This will build the groundwork for future directions of hapto-visual-audio VR Environments.