Haptic technology interfaces users with virtual environments through the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions. It works by using haptic devices like Phantom, a robotic arm that provides mechanical stimulation, or CyberGlove, which tracks hand gestures. Applications of haptics include surgical simulation, medical training, and graphical user interfaces. The technology provides advantages like easy access and use as well as conservation during development, but also has disadvantages such as limited magnitude, expense, and complexity.

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Introduction
Definition
How it works?
Working of Phantom
Haptic devices
Applications
Advantages & Disadvantages
Conclusion

3. Introduction
• Interfaces the user with a virtual environment
via the sense of touch by applying forces,
vibrations, and/or motions to the user.
• mechanical stimulation.

4. Definition
• Haptic technology, is a tactile feedback
technology that takes advantage of a user’s
sense of touch by applying forces, vibration
and motions to the user.
• Haptics:
“being able to come into contact with”
sense of touch

5. How it works?

6. PHANTOM

7. Other Haptic devices
• Cyber glove:
• Specialized mouse: A multi agent system
observes the user and helps in predicting the
next move on the mouse.

8. Applications
• Surgical Simulation and Medical Training:
remote surgery, with the central workstation
and performs in various locations.
• Graphical user interfaces:

9. Advantages
• Easy to Access And Use.
• Conservation: Prototype not required during
development, to check the accuracy and to
touch the model.

10. Disadvantages
• Limited magnitude and not equally well in all
directions: Algorithms ensure that component
don’t saturate.
• Implementation is expensive.
• Haptics applications can be extremely
complex, requiring highly specialized
hardware.

11. Conclusion
• Solution for interacting with the virtual
environment.
• Acts as an input and output device, tracking
user physical manipulations as an input and
providing realistic touch sensations as an
output coordinated with onscreen events.