Toward Adaptive VR Simulators Combining Visual, Haptic, and Brain-Computer Interfaces

The next generation of VR simulators could take into account a novel input: the user´s mental state, as measured with electrodes and a brain-computer interface. One illustration of this promising path is a project that adapted a guidance system´s force feedback to the user´s mental workload in real time. A first application of this approach is a medical training simulator that provides virtual assistance that adapts to the trainee´s mental activity. Such results pave the way to VR systems that will automatically reconfigure and adapt to their users´ mental states and cognitive processes.