Murayama - Spidar G&G

Summary

We have a 6 DOF haptics device called the SPIDAR G that provides force feedback. Let's put two of them together, one for each hand. We'll make people do different things, like use one hand to manipulate a target and another to manipulates an object with have to put into the target. If they run into something, we'll give them feedback to say they hit something. When they use one Spidar as opposed to just 2, they can usually do things faster.

Discussion

So all they do is take one machine and hook another up and use the two of them. And using two things, users can tend to do things a little bit faster. This is pretty obvious, since instead of just moving the object, I can now also move the target. It saves the amount of work I have to do.

I wonder if the strings of the Spidar would get in your way and limit your movement. Surely they would. Rotation would also be tough because you can't hold onto something and rotate it more than about 180 degrees.

No real evaluation performed, just a little bit of speedup data.