Input Devices (4)
The Visual Haptic Workbench consists of five hardware components.
The dominant hand of the user experiences haptic feedback from the PHANToM, and the subdominant hand navigates through a menu interface via Pinch glove contact gestures. Head tracking is done with a Polhemus Fastrak receiver mounted on a pair of Stereographics CrystalEyes LCD shutter glasses. The subdominant hand can also be tracked with a separate receiver to facilitate more complex interaction paradigms. The audio subsystem gives the user additional reinforcement cues to clarify