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virtual reality: touch/haptics  

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  • Haptic technology does for the sense of touch what computer graphics do for vision. Haptic technology creation of computer-generated haptic virtual objects (HVOs), which can be touched and manipulated with one's hands or body. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Virtual Reality: Touch/Haptics]

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