Bi-directional Mixed Reality Electric Circuit - Virtual Equivalence

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce Virtual Equivalence, a method to merge real circuits and virtual circuits. Also it is a new method to implement the Hyper-Bond (Bruns, 2001) for voltage and current flow. The electric power (current × voltage) interactions, at which the real electric components can be bi-directionally connected with the virtual electric components, using only one interface port between the real and virtual environment, are presented. With detailed implementations, it will be shown that this method can be applied in various mixed reality models with electric circuits, from learning environments of physics laboratory at school to simulation systems used in industry.