Realtime Collaborative Mixed Reality Environment with Force Feedback

Abstract A low cost Mixed Reality implementation with force feedback as a base for further empirical studies of collaboration in distributed real and virtual environments will be presented. It will be shown, how the system can be used to get more insight in tangible cooperation between humans, avatars or in general real and virtual systems. This application is related to Hyper-Bonds , a unified concept to describe complex effort/flow driven automation systems distributed over real and virtual worlds. It allows selected materialization of parts of the system into reality and their functional connection to a simulation model.