Virtual reality skin is an engineering research, published in the British journal Nature 20165438+1February 2 1. This study was conducted by a group of American scientists, who reported a wireless touch-sensitive interface that can cover the surface of human skin for communication. Its principle is to transmit information through mechanical vibration. The discovery of this technology can be used as a synthetic skin of VR, that is, virtual reality, with the function of transmitting touch, so it may be applied to the control and use of artificial limbs, video games and social media in the future.

1. What is virtual reality skin? Virtual reality skin is also called spiritual technology, including simulation technology, electronic information technology and computer technology. It is the most basic way to realize this technology to simulate the virtual environment by computer and make the human body feel immersed in this environment. Then, VR skin, we can understand that users can realize the feelings of real objects in the virtual environment through this skin.

Second, the application of virtual reality skin In the past, there were many VR skins that claimed to realize communication functions. Its characteristic is that in order to realize this function, it is necessary to wear a variety of wired electrodes on the human body, and then the vibration generated by these electrodes will stimulate the senses. Then it turns out that it is very difficult, even difficult, to find the appropriate voltage and current to produce the target response without causing any harm to the human body, especially the skin. Compared with the original VR skin, this kind of virtual reality skin embeds the vibration actuator sequence in the flexible material, and achieves the purpose of communication through electronic programming, thus making the body's senses respond. It is reported that this virtual reality skin will be applied to various social media in the near future, for example, it can be used to convey tactile feelings to lovers; It is applied to the control of artificial limbs, such as realizing the shape of the object grasped by artificial limbs through this system; For example, when applied to electronic games, exterior gateway protocol can play games while wearing the system, and feel the attacks in the game more intuitively and truly.

Through virtual reality skin, we can feel the smoothness of silk, the roughness of rocks, the warmth of small animals and the coolness of sea water in the virtual environment, and then we can pass this feeling on to others. Its battery-free and wireless functions enhance the user experience. In real life, it can also be applied to rehabilitation research in the field of neuroscience, so that patients without touch can find the feeling of touching objects and even their own touch through this technology.