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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 :)"

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  1. 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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  2. 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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