Tactile display of virtual reality from the World Wide Web - a potential access method for blind people
Work in progress at BT Labs to investigate the use of a haptic display as a component of an emerging de facto standard (VRML) for the display of three-dimensional images on the WWW is reported. Use of a simple haptic interface to provide access to three-dimensional virtual images is discussed. This is based on experience of developing a browser capable of driving a force-feedback probe from a VRML file. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
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