Drawing on Air With Haptics in 3D

Roland Piquepaille writes "In a recent article, PhysOrg.com reports that a team of computer scientists at Brown University has developed 'Drawing on Air', a haptic-aided interface to help artists to create 3D illustrations while wearing a virtual reality mask. 'The technique introduces two new strategies, using one hand or two hands, to give artists the tools they need for drawing different types of curves, and for viewing and editing their work.' The researchers hope that these techniques will improve the precision with which scientists can interact with their 3D data using a computer. This also would help artists to illustrate complicated artistic, scientific, and medical subjects."

Comments

Porn

[Tablizer]

If they want to sell it and expand it, then find a porn-related application. Works every time.

Re:Porn

[zdude255]

Psst.... Do I model the penis?

Open source powered

[Anonymous Coward]

It isn't mentioned in the article, but another cool fact is that Dan Keefe wrote the back end for this using Open Source tools, including Linux servers and the G3D graphics engine (http://g3d-cpp.sf.net) that he works on.

Re:Back to "Tactile"

[Chibi Merrow]

"Haptic" is nothing but a disgustingly pretentious way to say "tactile".

And your comment is nothing but a very long winded way of proving yourself ignorant. Haptics in virtual reality encompasses much much more than just tactile feedback. And yes, I work in a VR lab so this is (finally) something I'm relatively knowledgeable about. Tactile feedback (like beauty) is only skin deep. Full blown haptic feedback goes much further than that. Compare a vibrotactile array (which is just a grid of cell-phone vibrators, really) with a device like a Sensable PHANToM pen or Chapel Hill's molecular docking simulator, which have more in common with robot arms than vibrators.