WiredSwarm: High Resolution Haptic Feedback Provided by a Swarm of Drones to the User's Fingers for VR interaction
This addresses the need for rich haptic feedback in VR interactions, particularly for fine motor tasks, though it appears incremental as an extension of existing haptic technologies.
The paper tackles the problem of providing high-resolution haptic feedback in VR by introducing a novel interaction strategy where each user's finger is connected to a micro-quadrotor with a wire, resulting in stronger interaction forces and the ability to use smaller drones.
We propose a concept of a novel interaction strategy for providing rich haptic feedback in Virtual Reality (VR), when each user's finger is connected to micro-quadrotor with a wire. Described technology represents the first flying wearable haptic interface. The solution potentially is able to deliver high resolution force feedback to each finger during fine motor interaction in VR. The tips of tethers are connected to the centers of quadcopters under their bottom. Therefore, flight stability is increasing and the interaction forces are becoming stronger which allows to use smaller drones.