What is it about?
Origami offers an innovative way to implement touch (haptic) interaction employing a minimum of motor power, particularly in immersive worlds and robotics. This paper presents two novel origami-inspired haptic devices for Virtual Reality (VR). The Zipper Flower Tube is a foldable origami structure that can provide different stiffness sensations to simulate the elasticity of a material. The Shiftly is a shape-shifting haptic display that uses origami to enable a real-time experience of different shapes and edges of virtual objects or the softness of materials. The modular approach of our origami devices provides a high-fidelity, energy-efficient, and low-cost solution for interacting with virtual materials and objects in VR.
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Why is it important?
VR has become more integrated into our day-to-day life. Origami structures enable low-cost solutions for touching things in VR, which are realistic, support a variety of experiences, and are affordable.
Perspectives
We are a team of mathematicians and VR researchers exploring the potential of origami for immersive haptics with robots. Our goal is to make an arbitrarily big VR world touchable and interactable. Please, reach out to us if you have an idea for collaboration.
Khrystyna Vasylevska
Technische Universitat Wien
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This page is a summary of: Action-Origami Inspired Haptic Devices for Virtual Reality, July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3588037.3595393.
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