RealPot: an immersive virtual pottery system with handheld haptic devices

Abstract

We present RealPot, an immersive virtual pottery system with haptic feedback for pottery simulation training using hand-held motion controllers. Our system consists of two major components: an automatic mesh generator and an interactive model editor. The mesh generator can procedurally generate realistic clay meshes by adding Perlin Noise. With the interactive pottery model editor, the user can shape the virtual clay intuitively with a series of bimanual interactions. Based on real-life pottery, a high realism pottery creation workflow was developed and a haptic model was proposed. Our user study investigated how haptic fidelity can impact usability in virtual pottery, and compared our system with a representative work of barehand-based virtual pottery systems. The results of our study reveal that haptic fidelity significantly affects performance and user experience. In addition, the results indicate that our system offers significantly accuracy, presence and usability compared with barehand-based virtual pottery experience.