Have you sought to feel the sensations of spiders in and around your mouth whenever you want, whenever you want?Well, you’re in luck, crazy crazy, because virtual truth comes to the rescue.
New haptics are still being incorporated into virtual reality and, according to IFLScience (opens in a new tab), an organization of scientists from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future Interfaces Group (opens in a new tab) goes further. The team supplied an Oculus Quest 2 (opens in a new tab) with ultrasonic transducers, capable of generating ultrasonic power. For some reason, they pointed it directly into the mouth to bring exclusive sensations to the VR experience.
The power directed at your mouth creates sensations that can be pulsations, or sliding movements on the lips, or continuous vibrations, all at other speeds and intensities. It is said that they can approach genuine emotions such as the wind, or perhaps, yes, even spiders.
I keep going back to spiders because this is one of the demos described in the video above. It shows someone walking through a haunted forest with cobinternets and how sweeping motion is used through ultrasonic transducers to mimic the feeling of the internet touching your face. Then, a spider jumps on the player and more haptic elements are activated so that you can feel the 8 legs that seek to get into your mouth despite yourself.
Quieter and less crazy iterations related to simulating a water source opposite users’ lips, or the feeling of drinking coffee. It turns out that there may be many uses for this new type of haptic comments aimed at the mouth.
It would be even more attractive to see if this generation can be incorporated with other recently tested haptics. Researchers are using chemical haptics for sensations such as lack of blood and heat (it opens in a new tab), which could potentially increase the potency of those beverage simulations. There are also hypotheses about virtual kissing booths, but I think I’ll stick with spiders for now.
The ultrasonic transducer team conducted research after other people experienced the new sensations. Overall, immersion has been enhanced with the advent of those new mouth sensations in virtual reality. Since they can be connected to any headset, it is possible that they will actually move on to virtual reality. general public, although we don’t expect to see them anytime soon.
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