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Exploring How Haptics Contributes To Immersion In Virtual Reality, Dimcho Zhelyazkov Karakashev, Hong Z. Tan

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Virtual Reality (VR) has been around for more than fifty years but the technology hasn’t reached practical usability until very recently. With the current head-mounted display (HMD) technology and an abundance of investment in VR startups, we have finally reached at the point where it is possible to simulate complex virtual environments that feel immersive. A major problem with virtual reality is that everything looks real but you can not touch and feel virtual objects. We are focusing on developing a device that will allow users to feel what they touch in VR. We developed a hand-held interface and an …