Title: PhyShare: Sharing Physical Interaction in Virtual Reality,
Abstract: We present PhyShare, a new haptic user interface based on actuated robots.
Virtual reality has recently been gaining wide adoption, and an effective
haptic feedback in these scenarios can strongly support user's sensory in
bridging virtual and physical world. Since participants do not directly observe
these robotic proxies, we investigate the multiple mappings between physical
robots and virtual proxies that can utilize the resources needed to provide a
well rounded VR experience. PhyShare bots can act either as directly touchable
objects or invisible carriers of physical objects, depending on different
scenarios. They also support distributed collaboration, allowing remotely
located VR collaborators to share the same physical feedback.