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Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology
skade88 notes an interesting new piece of tactile feedback technology unveiled in Japan. Officials of Miraisens, a high-tech firm based outside Tokyo, said the technology, which can be used to improve the gaming experience or allow someone to physically shape objects that exist only on a computer, will soon be available for purchase. "Touching is an important part of human communication, but until now virtual reality has lacked it," Chief Executive Natsuo Koda said. "This technology will give you a sense that you can touch objects in the 3-D world," said Koda, a former virtual reality researcher for Sony Corp. It works by fooling the brain, blending what the eye sees with different patterns of vibration created by a small fingertip device, said Norio Nakamura, the inventor of so-called 3D-Haptics Technology and chief technical officer at the firm. In one demonstration of a prototype head-mounted display, the company showed how the wearer can feel resistance by pushing virtual buttons.
Porn please.
What else is anyone going to pay to use this for? Hmmm?
Hentai. Those tentacles will be squishy alright...
... before no teenage boy leaves the house. Ever!
Can I hug my Werewolf princess anime girlfriend yet and have her not feel like a dakimakura?
Wow, I guess I'm the only person on Slashdot whose first thought was "virtual keyboards I can actually feel, how cool is that?" and not "tentacle porn!"
Whatever happened to the electrical surface that could change textures? It sent specific signals that fooled your skin nerves into thinking it was touching something else (rough, smooth, etc...). Like an advanced TENS or e-stim device. Wasn't it on Slashdot a few years ago? Held up by patients and an unmotivated parent company like Microsoft's electrical input string that can tell where it's touched, bent, and twisted? There's so many cool things out there collecting dust. Sigh.
Umm, yeah.
No.
Look around you. You'll soon understand some blessings of 2D, and the many of 1D.
This company has a tactile feedback and is much more advanced and cooler VR technology.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
And the M.I.T. Touch Lab has had this same tech for years now.
Good to see it's finally coming to market in some form though.
http://touchlab.mit.edu/news/bg/magictch.htm
You guys can now jerk each other off over the tubes!
I could imagine a sculpting program where you could push and pull and pinch and press things and feel it being created under your fingertips.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
This is cool, but the Israelis are ten generations beyond this.
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Touchable? Really? At least it's in quotes, but, really? How about "tactile" which is a word?
What is this, technology for corrupt cops?
This kind of crap is never synced up correctly, there's always a miniscule delay the brain feels making VR uncomfortable to use.
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