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NASA's 'Virtual Glovebox'

Posted by timothy on from the touch-but-don't-touch dept.

jukal writes "An article at SpaceDaily writes about NASA's BioVIS Lab's VirtualGloveBoX project: " The virtual glovebox will combine a three-dimensional display and workstation with force-feedback devices and real-time computer simulation. It will give astronauts a realistic training session for biology research tasks they may perform aboard the space station." This might be cool, but I still believe the first real killer application will be the VirtualLoveBoX :)"

15 comments

  1. Re:I WIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    on a more serious note, this story is lame cuz, well, its just not interesting and they ripped off the dual-projector idea from a recent article on slashdot.(poor man's stereoscope) GOOOO NASA!

  2. the killer app. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of course the virtual love box will the most successful and addictive application ever created, and a whole generation will lose their parents to virtual sex. My money is on these guys at univ. of sheffield for first to a marketable product.

  3. virtual meat grinder by !splut · · Score: 2

    I'd be a little wary of force feedback. I'm sure that it's bulit with all sorts of safety mechanisms and such... But what if your new NintendoGameBox becomes infected with a computer virus that spontaneously runs a "crush your hand in a meat grinder" simulation?

    And that goes double for a LoveBoX.

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    The angel in the oatmeal.
    1. Re:virtual meat grinder by smileyy · · Score: 1

      A virtual meat grinder would have helped this guy out a lot.

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      pooptruck
  4. Glovebox, wow... by Cyno01 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, guess what my uncle keeps in his glovebox?, Yeah, gloves, isn't that weird?

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    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  5. Re:mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nice article, if you're into Microsoft technologies. I think you'll find though that Mono has already been there and done that. Those screenshots are obviously ripped off from the Mungo project, which predates it by 3 months. Their site seems to be down at the moment, but I'll post a link to the screenshots later.

  6. Gamecube Games by DJ+Easy+Dick · · Score: 1

    Can I play some neat version of Super Handball on my Gamecube with it?

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    DJ Eeeeeeeeeeasy Dick
  7. Re:mirror by Niahak · · Score: 1

    Nice archive of goatse.cx you got there. Mind if I burst your bubble by warning people of it? ;)

  8. How long I have waited for this? by Scaebor · · Score: 1

    Look everyone! Its the NASA Power Glove 2003! Now it will be impossible for Bowser to again steal Princess Peach away from me for long!
    MWahahahahahaha!!

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    "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand / your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying"
    1. Re:How long I have waited for this? by falzer · · Score: 1

      Peach? What the hell happened to princess toadstool?

    2. Re:How long I have waited for this? by Scaebor · · Score: 1

      Too much mario kart lately. They call her peach there.

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      "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand / your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying"
  9. Oh please by p3d0 · · Score: 1
    You really can't think of a solution to this? (Hint: The virtual meat grinder problem about as serious a threat as a computer virus reprogramming my monitor to shoot a lethal electron beam into my eyes.)

    Please stop before you reach this level.

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    Patrick Doyle
    I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....