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Ultrasound Used To Create Haptics That Can Be Touched and Felt
mrspoonsi writes "Bristol University used ultrasound focused to create 3d objects out of the thin air. The research, led by Dr Ben Long and colleagues Professor Sriram Subramanian, Sue Ann Seah and Tom Carter from the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science, could change the way 3D shapes are used. The new technology could enable surgeons to explore a CT scan by enabling them to feel a disease, such as a tumor, using haptic feedback. The method uses ultrasound, which is focused onto hands above the device and that can be felt. By focussing complex patterns of ultrasound, the air disturbances can be seen as floating 3D shapes. Visually, the researchers have demonstrated the ultrasound patterns by directing the device at a thin layer of oil so that the depressions in the surface can be seen as spots when lit by a lamp. "In the future, people could feel holograms of objects that would not otherwise be touchable, such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT scan or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum."
Just got a whole lot better!
the method uses ultrasound
Every time you touch it all the dogs in the neighborhood go nutzo. And newborns scream.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
"Are you signing to the deaf in slow motion, or running your invisible pr0n app?"
Table-ized A.I.
No holodeck comments yet?
I think Loobee did it with his touch sculptures over on Jinx...
This is the official way how holography works in the mass effect universe.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Seriously, this is another piece of the puzzle in the making
horray! that elusive aspect of the LCARS standard that requires those displayed buttons have haptic feedback is now achievable!
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Improving haptic feedback is a good idea, as the current attempts simply don't feel realistic. However, doctors feeling tumours? Why? That's a sophisticated audience; people who have trained, through qualifications and experience, to understand tumours through imaging. Yes, scrolling through a CT scan with a mouse wheel isn't realistic, but they've learnt to accommodate.
On the other hand, the masses using touchscreen, that's an open market. Maybe it's a worthwhile one, maybe it's not. But that's the market to try. Otherwise it's like selling finger-friendly guitars. The professionals have adapted their fingers to the current steel--calluses and all. It's the beginners you want to target.
Internet rule 34. How long will it take?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
You know, that FF/Black Panther villain who makes solid sound objects? He's really solid sound himself, somehow he uses Vibranium to exist.
Will someone please build me the Tony Stark interface with this stuff?
Kthanksbye.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
The Dept. Of Redundancy Dept.
Touched and Felt
We could build a holodeck this way.
By focussing complex patterns of ultrasound, the air disturbances can be seen as floating 3D shapes.
I think someone's taken the special effect in the YouTube video too literally. I don't think ultrasound can make visible shapes in air.
See it, touch it, feel it
No, actually, just "touch it, feel it." And those are the same thing really.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
"In the future, people could feel holograms of objects that would not otherwise be touchable, such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT scan or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum."
In the future, people could feel holograms of objects that would not otherwise be touchable? It will probably be used in Hatsune Miku concerts years before any museum has one. Medical use may depend on costs, but usually any 3D tech is very expensive.
Can it do boobies? Wake me when we have haptic boobies.
What happens in the holodeck... gets resold at Quark's bar.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
The earliest adopter will be the porn industry,
Went and read the article (hey, someone on slashdot had to put up the $15). Anyway, at the end they had participants see if they could correctly guess the shape, and about 90% of them could. The haptic field produced here is no where near strong enough to stop or hinder hand movement. I imagine that the closest sensation to this in real life would be running your hand under a balloon and feeling the shape by how your hand hairs respond.