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