Occurrence of Pseudo-Haptics by Swimming in a Virtual Reality Environment

This study focuses on the investigation of pseudo-haptics while swimming in a highly immersive virtual reality environment created using a head-mounted display to investigate the conditions under which pseudo-haptics occur while performing considerable physical exercises. When the users perform the outward sweep motion of the breaststroke, the spheres floating in the virtual reality space move toward the users. The experimental results confirm that pseudo-haptics can be controlled using this setup by adjusting the ratio of the amount of movement of users' hands and the amount of movement of the virtual reality spheres.