Lalit Palve

I have designed, developed, and tested a portable novel vibrotactile actuator (vibrotactor) that can give haptic feedback. This device has a small contact area on the skin, for providing pinpoint locality of stimulation, but also for packing many stimulators into a small area. The device can also provide constant loading on the skin, accurate measurement of skin displacement amplitude and frequency of stimulation, unlike the similar available devices. I have integrated Oculus rift, Unity 3D, Azure, Arduinos and the vibrotactor I had built, to create a dense array of vibrotactors for use in rich sensory feedback applications, e.g. facial tactile stimulation that can let you feel objects in virtual reality. I would like to create a system that can make VR experiences more realistic and help us understand the phenomenon of “Body ownership” and how brain senses and controls body.

This is my personal project that I have been working on for last one year. I wanted to learn how to build a device as well as understand how mixed reality works so I designed a vibrotactile actuator and integrated it into an environment that allows us to feel the virtual objects.