RoomShift: A room-scale haptic and dynamic environment for VR applications

Researchers at University of Colorado Boulder’s ATLAS Institute have recently created RoomShift, a haptic and dynamic environment that could be used to support a variety of virtual reality (VR) experiences. This new haptic environment, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv and presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 (CHI ’20), uses a team of small robots that can rearrange furniture inside a room.

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