The Development of a Virtual Doll Companion for Haptic Interaction

The main purpose of virtual reality is to immerse a user in a virtual environment. However, the most common criticism of the commodity VR controllers is that they are not able to provide effective tactile feedback. In this paper, we propose a 9-DOF sensor driven haptic feedback companion which is here to bridge the virtual and physical worlds. A 9-DoF sensor through UDP protocol allows us to display the doll's position in real-time. Touch sensor enabled servo motor gives users the effective haptic feedback. When the doll shows different facial expressions in the virtual scenarios, the physical head will have different kinds of rotations in real-time.