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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:I wonder by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is computational clay. Not MAGIC clay.

  2. Hmm... by excelblue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder what would happen if I were to touch the replicated object and attempt to mess around with the inner parts of it.

    Or what kind of disaster would I end up with if there was some serious lag in the information? How about corrupted info?

  3. Re:Funny but Not Funny by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder what thoughts would have been conjured up in my head had I not known that 'Demolition Man' was a movie :)