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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality

by Karen McMenemy, Robin Stuart Ferguson
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
604 pages
17h 36m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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2.4. Olfaction—The Sense of Smell 23
Piezoelectric crystals. Crystals that expand and contract in response to
changes in an electric field. Work in this area has long been conducted
by the University of North Carolina [4].
Shape memory alloy. Shape memory alloy wires and contract springs
contract when heated and then expand again as they cool. An inter-
esting haptic device based on this technology was developed at Har-
vard [10].
Pneumatic systems. This type of system operates using air jets with an
array of air nozzles that can be grafted to a display device. For example,
the Rutgers Master II operates using pneumatic pistons which are posi-
tioned in the palm of the hand and can be activated to apply a force to
both the fingers and thumb ...
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ISBN: 9781568814773