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Telepresence Via Matter Imaging

Posted by Zonk on from the reach-out-and-touch-someone dept.

Qa32 writes "Computer scientists in the U.S. are developing a system which would allow people to convey a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the Internet. From the article: 'When you watch something created by claymation, it is a real object and it looks like it's moving itself. That's something like the idea we're doing... in our case, the idea is that you have computation in the 'clay', as though the clay can move itself.'"

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  1. Re:Why not use this technology for something like. by julesh · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...projecting Braille dots so blind people can read machine text instead of having it read to them by some text-to-speech program?

    Braille terminals have been available since, like, forever. It's only modern GUI systems that have excluded blind users with inherently visual interfaces.