Seminar: Haptic Immersive Environments

Proposal Abstract:

This talk summarizes research carried out in the CSIRO Virtual Environments Laboratory in Canberra over the last five years. It covers aspects of immersive 3D displays, haptics, 3D sound and augmented reality. Examples of uses of such systems will be briefly discussed and the author's particular interest in collaborative haptics over the Internet will be dealt with in more detail. The hapto-visual development framework will be described along with a surgical training system, which will be presented as an example of the application of some of the technology and which is currently being commercialised. Other work, such as integrating haptics with augmented reality, and a crowd interaction system using footsteps will be briefly covered.