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Mind-Blowing Interfaces On Display At SIGGRAPH 2009

Posted by Soulskill on from the closing-in-on-that-holodeck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tech Review has a roundup of some cool, experimental new interfaces being shown at SIGGRAPH 2009, underway in New Orleans this week. They include an amazing 'touchable holograph' display, developed by a team in Japan, which uses an ultrasound device to simulate the sense of touch as the user grasps objects shown in 3D. The other ideas on display are Augmented Reality for Ordinary Toys, Hyper-Realistic Virtual Reality, 3D Teleconferencing and Scratchable Input Devices. If this is the future of computers, sign me up." The conference has also seen the release of OpenGL 3.2 by the Khronos Group.

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  1. ultrasound... by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, you can actually feel something when you touch the hologram?

    3-D PORN.

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    1. Re:ultrasound... by Tetsujin · · Score: 5, Funny

      As soon as I get my hands on an API.

      And some Japanese teenage girls... ...You know what? Forget the API.

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  2. Re:I'm a PC.... by Tekfactory · · Score: 5, Funny

    You take that back!

  3. Holodeck by gurps_npc · · Score: 5, Funny

    As we all should know from STNG, the 3d touchable hologram is probably the most dangerous entertainment system ever created. The doors never let you out, the holographic characters become sentient, the safety protocals NEVER work and it opens a rift up to places where holographic characters evolved naturally, so they promptly invade. STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

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