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Title	Haptic hardware support in a 3D game engine
Author/s	Henrik Aamisepp, Daniel Nilsson
Department/s	Certec, Rehabilitation Engineering
Full-text	Available as PDF
Alternative location (URL)	http://www.certec.lth.se/doc/h...
Publishing year	2003
Abstract English	The aim of this master's thesis is to find out if it is possible to integrate haptic hardware support in the open source 3D game engine Crystal Space. Integrating haptic support would make it possible to get a haptic representation of 3D geometry in Crystal Space and therefore take advantage of all the benefits a 3D game engine provides, when building haptic applications. An implementation of the support should be as low-cost as possible by taking advantage of available open source haptic API alternatives. The thesis report presents an evaluation of available haptic APIs and comes up with a design and an implementation. The solution has been implemented as a Crystal Space plugin by using modified parts of the e-Touch open module API. The plugin makes it possible to utilize the Phantom haptic device to touch and feel the 3D environments in a Crystal Space application. Two demo applications have also been constructed to show the capabilities of the plugin.
Subject	Technology and Engineering
Keywords	Synskador och blindhet, Haptiska gränssnitt – Virtual Reality
Document type	Master's Degree (Two Years)
Language	English
Supervisor	n/a n/a
Additional info	Reserach group: Audio-Haptic Interactive Design