Research News: Opening New Doors in the Virtual World, Literally
The system, which built upon an existing visuo-haptic door-opening redirection technique, allows participants to subtly manipulate the walking direction while opening doors in VR, guiding them away from real walls,” points out Professor Fujita, who is based at Tohoku University’s Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC). “At the same time, the system reproduces the realistic haptics of touching a doorknob, enhancing the quality of the experience.”
Publication Details:
Yukai Hoshikawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Morten Fjeld, Yoshifumi Kitamura. RedirectedDoors+: Door-Opening Redirection with Dynamic Haptics in Room-Scale VR, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372105
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10466477 (Paper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdr1cvpe2_c (Movie)
Yukai Hoshikawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Morten Fjeld, Yoshifumi Kitamura. RedirectedDoors: Redirection While Opening Doors in Virtual Reality, Proc. of 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEEVR 2022), pp. 464-473, Mar. 2022. Honorable Mention Award.
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR51125.2022.00066 (Paper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv-1pdqwahQ (Movie)