James L. Bohn

RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots

RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots: Roombas with mechanical scissor lifts. These robots drive beneath a piece of furniture to lift, move and place it. By augmenting virtual sce…