Haptic Turk is a ancestor bold that uses your accompany as basic robots to do immersive motion simulation at home. The research project from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany demoed a flight actor alternative at CHI2014 endure week: the amateur wears 3D goggles and lies in two slings captivated by four friends—the "human actuators" or turkers. A fifth can do appropriate effects, inventing sensations with whatever is on hand.
The player's affectation is mirrored either on a screen, a projector, or alone phones/tablets for the turkers, who play a Dance Dance Revolution-style bold of triggering the appropriate motions at the appropriate time. The arrangement generates motion instructions for the turkers by audition collisions in beforehand (so the arrangement seems bigger ill-fitted for slower simulations, such as adhere glider flight rather than car racing).
But accurateness isn't absolutely the point. Haptic Turk adds a concrete and amusing ambit to simulations that could contrarily be physically isolating. It's aswell exercise. The cardboard says that "fatigue bliss in afterwards two circuit of turking."
There are lots of motion simulators out there, from -Costco's $150,000 antagonism car that doesn't do g-force to NASA-style robots like the Universal Motion Simulator. But even a crowdfunded student-made antagonism car sim that looked like the absolute deal (but didn't get commercialized) wouldn't accept been cheap. Force-feedback doesn't chase Moore's Law; these machines are fabricated of metal and motors, and they're traveling to break expensive.
Is Haptic Turk the answer? [University of Potsdam]
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