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Disney Creates New Mid-Air Haptic Technology

Posted by Soulskill on from the holodeck-inches-closer dept.

An anonymous reader sends word of a new technology from Disney called AIREAL, featured at this year's SIGGRAPH 2013 conference in Anaheim, CA. It's designed to give tactile sensations to people who are using motion control devices. The device can track a target, like a user's hand, and send a compressed ring of air quickly through the intervening space to provide haptic feedback. They say the device is both inexpensive and scalable. Several of its parts are easily 3-D printed.

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  1. The Only Market That Matters by DexterIsADog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are there applications for interactive porn? I don't know how much push they can put in those air rings, but if it's enough to stimulate a penis, I say... blow me.

  2. Re:3D Boobs by Cryacin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, so now dead space 4 will not only have nasties jumping out of the dark, but a gentle wisp of breathing on my neck as well.

    I think the sales of adult diapers will be going through the roof.

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  3. Re:3D Boobs by davester666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, the part with the fan.

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