Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 28, 2023 - July 01, 2023
Most sports training in Virtual Reality uses only eyesight and hearing, not touch. So we considered that we gave haptics to VR sports. Among them, we focused on the catching movement, which is the basis of skills such as baseball and softball. To improve the reality of catching a ball, we proposed to present the sensation of catching a ball to the palm using traction force and electrical skin stimulation. As a result, it was partially confirmed that the sensation in catching was improved by the electrical skin stimulation compared with the traction force alone, but the difference from real catch was remained.
