Poster: A wearable augmented reality system with haptic feedback and its performance in virtual assembly tasks

Haptic feedback is important to improve the operability of virtual objects. However, AR systems with haptic feedback are still not many. Moreover, users cannot perform tasks that need large workspaces in those systems because of physical constraints from haptic feedback devices. In this paper, we combined a wearable haptic device and a marker-less AR technology to develop an AR system in which users can perform activities that need large workspaces. Differences of the operability of virtual objects in an assembly task of large machines are examined to evaluate effects of the haptic feedback in this system. The result indicates that haptic feedback is effective and users can perform activities that need large space in this system.