Challenges in the Deployment of Visuo-Haptic Virtual Environments on the Internet
This addresses deployment problems for developers and users of collaborative virtual environments, but it is incremental as it reviews existing challenges and solutions.
The paper examines the challenges of deploying visuo-haptic virtual environments over the Internet, focusing on network performance limitations, and provides a structured analysis of recent advances and progress in overcoming these issues.
Haptic sensory feedback has been shown to complement the visual and auditory senses, improve user performance and provide a greater sense of togetherness in collaborative and interactive virtual environments. However, we are faced with numerous challenges when deploying these systems over the present day Internet. The most significant of these challenges are the network performance limitations of the Wide Area Networks. In this paper, we offer a structured examination of the current challenges in the deployment of haptic-based distributed systems by analyzing the recent advances in the understanding of these challenges and the progress that has been made to overcome them.