Vehicle-Ride Sensation Sharing for Immersive Remote Collaboration with Vestibular Haptic Chair to reduce VR Sickness

Abstract

We proposed a telepresence system presenting vehicle-ride sensation in real time for remote collaborative tasks. We used a Segway, a personal vehicle for a local driver, and a rotary chair with vestibular haptic feedback for an expert who remotely attends the task. The telepresence system will enable an expert to collaborate remotely with a local driver regarding a highly professional local surveillance task. We conducted a preliminary test on the feedback system design using a rotary seat built for the evaluation. The result showed that the participants adjusted the angular acceleration of the rotary seat at about a half of the angular acceleration of the camera in motion. The seat rotation needed to be in-phase with the rotation of the camera to reduce VR sickness.