A survey of mid-air ultrasound haptics and its applications

I Rakkolainen, E Freeman, A Sand… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound haptics is a contactless haptic technology that enables novel mid-air interactions
with rich multisensory feedback. This article surveys recent advances in ultrasound haptic …

User experience and mid-air haptics: Applications, methods, and challenges

O Georgiou, W Frier, O Schneider - Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for …, 2022 - Springer
Mid-air haptic feedback presents exciting new opportunities for useful and delightful
interactive systems. However, with these opportunities come several design challenges that …

Head-mounted display with mid-air tactile feedback

A Sand, I Rakkolainen, P Isokoski, J Kangas… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Virtual and physical worlds are merging. Currently users of head-mounted displays cannot
have unobtrusive tactile feedback while touching virtual objects. We present a mid-air tactile …

Active touch perception produced by airborne ultrasonic haptic hologram

S Inoue, Y Makino, H Shinoda - 2015 IEEE World Haptics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method to present volumetric haptic objects in the air using spatial modulation of
ultrasound is proposed. Previous methods of airborne ultrasonic tactile display were based …

Aerial vibrotactile display based on multiunit ultrasound phased array

K Hasegawa, H Shinoda - IEEE transactions on haptics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report on an airborne vibrotactile display with a multiunit ultrasound phased
array synthetic aperture. The system generates an ultrasound field with a location-tunable …

System and method for rendering interactive aerial volumetric graphics and generating spatial audio using femtosecond lasers

Y Ochiai, T Hoshi, J Rekimoto, K Kumagai… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
US10228653B2 - System and method for rendering interactive aerial volumetric graphics and
generating spatial audio using femtosecond lasers - Google Patents US10228653B2 - System …

Cross-field aerial haptics: Rendering haptic feedback in air with light and acoustic fields

Y Ochiai, K Kumagai, T Hoshi, S Hasegawa… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present a new method of rendering aerial haptic images that uses femtosecond-laser
light fields and ultrasonic acoustic fields. In conventional research, a single physical quantity …

Ultrasound mid-air tactile feedback for immersive virtual reality interaction

T Howard, M Marchal, C Pacchierotti - Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for …, 2022 - Springer
Ultrasound mid-air haptic (UMH) devices are promising for tactile feedback in virtual reality
(VR), as they do not require users to be tethered to, hold, or wear any device. This approach …

PUMAH: pan-tilt ultrasound mid-air haptics for larger interaction workspace in virtual reality

T Howard, M Marchal, A Lécuyer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mid-air haptic interfaces are promising tools for providing tactile feedback in Virtual Reality
(VR) applications, as they do not require the user to be tethered to, hold, or wear any system …

Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Hand Guidance in Virtual Reality

L Mulot, T Howard, C Pacchierotti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents and evaluates a set of mid-air ultrasound haptic strategies to provide 2-
degree-of-freedom position and orientation guidance in Virtual Reality (VR). We devised …