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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies
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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

by Philippe Fuchs, Guillaume Moreau, Pascal Guitton
July 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
16h 6m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 8
Hardware devices of force feedback
interfaces
Florian Gosselin and Claude Andriot
Contributor: Philippe Fuchs
8.1 INTRODUCTION
The progress made in the field of information technology helps to create virtual worlds
that are becoming more and more real, where the user can not only see, hear and feel
the surrounding objects but can also touch them, thanks to haptic interfaces.
In reality, haptic interfaces include two main types, i.e. the force feedback interfaces
or kinaesthetic interfaces and tactile feedback interfaces. The kinaesthetic sense helps
to feel the position and the movements of the body as well as the forces exerted on
it using
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