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Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies
sp3cialk79 writes "Researchers from Philips Electronics plan to describe a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer's emotional response to what the characters are experiencing.
'People don't realize how sensitive we are to touch, although it is the first sense that fetuses develop in the womb,' says Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior scientist who will be presenting research done using the jacket at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference in Salt Lake City.
The jacket contains 64 independently controlled actuators distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators are arrayed in 16 groups of four and linked along a serial bus; each group shares a microprocessor. The actuators draw so little current that the jacket could operate for an hour on its two AA batteries even if the system was continuously driving 20 of the motors simultaneously."
Cause I just envisioned someone wearing this jacket in a seedy "adult" theater.
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This would be great for those really claustrophobic scenes, like the burial scene in Kill Bill. Or when Hanibal Lecter is tied up in his straightjacket.
Where's the penis attachment?
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Are those your actuators acting up or are you just happy to see me?
(The form factor's pretty terrible, though. Need to get one of those LilyPad Arduinos or something, and tiiny motors, and make it unnoticeable to the passerby...)
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What ever happened to focusing on the sense of smell for more intimate immersion? I could see that being difficult at the movie theater, especially when watching movies about Orc's and Hobbits, but still - scent was supposed to be the next big thing!
Anyone else remember Sensurround? I remember seeing what I remember as a "Battlestar Galactica" movie in Sensurround, but I wasn't moved by the experience.
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>>the jacket could operate for an hour on its two AA batteries
Don't movies last more than one hour?
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Marx
Do not wear during during Die Hard.
This jacket sounds expensive, but the pants are half off!
Part of the fun of movies is that sometimes you switch which person you're relating to most. This kind of device would kind of have to make a choice for you...
But I do think action movies might be serious fun. It's more like one of those 3D Disney Theater experiences...
I would not want to see Rocky with one of these, though. Ug. Ow. Ooof.
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The single best use of this device would be to constrict and asphyxiate anyone in the cinema who insists on talking or fidgeting or generally disrupting others during the film. I would be especially in favour of its use on disruptive children, of all ages.
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It was either "Kentucky Fried Movie" or "Amazon Women on the Moon" that had a funny skit called Feel-a-vision. An usher performed the 'feeling' part for the patron - the first movie was a detective mystery; the second was announced as Deep Throat (at which point the movie patron ran away at great speed). Someone who remembers it better should chime in with the details - the motto of the decade seems to be "Everything old is new again, this time with computers!"
Or porn jokes. "Lawnmower Man" references. Etc.
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Reminds me of the 'Feelies' in Huxley's 'Brave New World'. It will probably end up being mainly used in the same fashion. (i.e. for porn)
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In this economy, won't someone think of the Feel-Around theater employees?
Posterity, my posterior.
...can you also sit and lean back while wearing that jacket or do you have to stand still with your hands to the sides like in the TFA?
Or will that break the actuators.
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Touching people over IP....
By whatever you hold Holy, please keep this technology away from Michael Bay. And while you're at it, hide his cameras.
If you want to feel the movies, get a kickass sound system. Your whole ROOM will vibrate!
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A similar jacket may make an interesting game feedback device.
The thump of a bullet hitting your back in a shooter would be nifty directional feedback. A tap on the shoulder in the dark of a horror game could be startling. The grip on your arm of a frightened refugee you're escorting through a combat zone, an opponent trying to tickle you in a fighting game as a distraction. And of course the same feedback scenarios mentioned in TFA, just in games rather than movies.
Of course, the cost would probably relegate such a thing to a niche market, but it'd be fun component t'play around with in a game's design.
Will it come with soda spilled on it already or..?
People^WLonely scientists don't realize how sensitive we are to touch
FTFY.
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Some people here would rather call them "fetii", I guess...
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fromt the 70s... What a coincidence we had a horrible economy when Earthquake (with Sensurround) came out!
Make sure you don't ask for the wrong jacket. Results may vary.
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don't think I need a jacket to feel the movies....shoot....my feet (technically my shoes) already feel the stick floors, my back and butt feel the crappy seats, my ears feel the pain of idiots who don't shut the hell up when the movie starts, my eyes feel the pain when watching endless amounts of advertising....all starts with my wallet feeling lighter.
besides, I'm sure there are some movies, u don't want to feel....(the new street fighter movie comes to mind)
The porn industry is often the first technology adopter. They were doing ecommerce on the web when most businesses were afraid to take CC numbers.
Would buy gloves that would turn my iPhone into a Model M.
The "touch is the first sense to develop" crowd believes that the sucking a fetus does at 8 weeks is "pleasurable" - but there isn't enough brain matter to register a "sense of pleasure".
Until the brain can distinguish it, there is no "sense" even if all the hardware to transmit signals to the brain is there.
As long as it doesn't crush me like Luke in the garbage compacter, I'll be good.
"People don't realize how sensitive we are to touch..."
I think most people realize that we are very sensitive to touch
I have plenty of touch when I view movies.
Finally, I can feel boobs without getting slapped!!
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Raging Bull or Rocky would be cool.
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This seems to be a perfect technology for augmented reality applications. One of the problems of interacting with avatars in a augmented reality space is that you can't have any actual physical contact, only audio & visual. This could provide that next layer of interaction that could make the experience something unique. Yeah I know many are thinking of finding significant others (or AI significant others) for something like this. However even beyond that this type of technology is exactly what the AR industry needs. If I'm having a meeting with someone on the other side of the globe a glove version of this could allow for a simple hand shake. That might not seem that important but as human animals we rely a great deal on physical interactions. Being an IT person that spends a great deal of time sitting in front of a screen it seems paramount that someday we detach ourselves from the current computer interaction model (keyboard, mouse, screen). I'm very curious to see the results of the study. Nice work, hope to see it in use!
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I'll start:
Make me actuate, make me actuate!
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Seriously this is quite possibly the best idea ever, I can't wait to start watching movies, and being able to feel them.
I can't wait to watch: ... and similar.
Irreversible
Quills
The Hurt Locker
A Clockwork Orange
Will the jacket have a rape function built in?
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"The Tingler is loose in THIS theater! Scream! Scream for your lives!"
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A Camera that is a floating sphere, that records the 3dimensional imagery of everything, the smells, sounds and feelings of everything....
and one day the recorded data of this sphere is just plugged into your brain.
I imagine this will happen even before 3Dimensional practical 3D holographic projectors are created.
Which term was first coined in Ted Nelson's book "Computer Lib and Dream Machines" I believe (published in the early to mid 70's). There might be a hyphen or three in there somewhere.
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