An Innovation of Interaction Method Based on Force Feedback in HMD System

Abstract

Abstract With the development and wide application of virtual reality technology, the emerging virtual reality system brings better visual experience. In the field of scientific visualization, immersive visual experience and well-designed interactive method can enhance user experience. Since traditional 2D input devices such as mouse and keyboard cannot support direct 3D manipulation, they cannot be applied to virtual reality visualization. Moreover, basic VR interactive devices like controllers also have some problems such as low operation precision and the lack of sensory simulation and real-time feedback operation. In order to solve these problems, we propose a virtual reality interactive method based on force feedback to deal with the complex interactive operation of scientific data in 3D space. We also reported a user testing which compared our approach with traditional VR controllers in same tasks demonstrates that the proposed approach has higher accuracy and better user experience.