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Haptic Augmented Reality

Taxonomy, Research

Status, and Challenges

Seokhee Jeon, Seungmoon Choi,

and Matthias Harders

10.1 INTRODUCTION

This chapter introduces an emerging research eld in augmented reality (AR), called

haptic AR. As AR enables a real space to be transformed to a semi-virtual space by

providing a user with the mixed sensations of real and virtual objects, haptic AR does

the same for the sense of touch; a user can touch a real object, a virtual object, or a real

object augmented with virtual touch. Visual AR is a relatively mature technology and

is being applied to diverse practical applications such as surgical training, industr ...