Touchable Holograms

[Veho]

[Hiroyuki Shinoda, Professor, Tokyo University]:
"Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you'd try to touch it, your hand would go right through. But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touch to holograms."

The technology consists of software that uses ultrasonic waves to create pressure on the hand of a user “touching” the projected hologram.

Researchers are using two Wiimotes from Nintendo’s Wii gaming system to track a user’s hand.

Source (and a slightly more exciting video) here.


Three years from now, the first tactile-feedback "dating sim" (nudge nudge wink wink say no more) hits Japanese store shelves

 

[mameks]

Talking of fapping

Nah, but seriously, that's kinda kewl.

 

[Veho]

But imagine placing those ultrasound arrays like that on either side of a 3D TV, and you have physical feedback for your gaming. You shoot at the TV, and the TV shoots back

 

[gameboy13]

That's awesome!

 

[.Chris]

Go Ninty! Thats cool, they are using two wiimotes.

 

[mameks]

But imagine placing those ultrasound arrays like that on either side of a 3D TV, and you have physical feedback for your gaming. You shoot at the TV, and the TV shoots back

In Soviet Russia, game shoot you!
Had to say it :3

 

[Rydian]

Presented in SIGGRAPH 2009.

 

[ProtoKun7]

SOME DAY.

 

[nryn99]

But imagine placing those ultrasound arrays like that on either side of a 3D TV, and you have physical feedback for your gaming. You shoot at the TV, and the TV shoots back

In Soviet Russia, game shoot you!
Had to say it :3

with those technology, health bars doesn't matter anymore. it's "evade" or "get hurt"

 

[Infinite Zero]

Damn! This is so cool.

 

[RKz]

Damn! This is so cool.

yes it is!

 

[redact]

really old news..
saw this like 5 months ago...

 

[8BitWalugi]

Go Ninty! Thats cool, they are using two wiimotes.
It's not Nintendo that made it, the developers just used Wiimotes. Why? I have no idea.

QUOTE(Infinite Zero @ Dec 3 2010, 05:38 PM) Damn! This is so cool.

yes it is!

Pointless post much? Couldn't you just say it's cool?


Anyway, that aside, this is old news. I remember seeing it a year ago.

 

[neokingster]

SOME DAY.

Good old Star Trek

 

[Veho]

the developers just used Wiimotes. Why? I have no idea.
[...]
I remember seeing it a year ago.

Well, I'd say they used Wiimotes because Kinect wasn't available at the time.

 

[Vigilante]

cool O for science

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Thanks for the video, Veho!

Now if only I can add this to my futuristic robots...

 

[FAST6191]

I must admit I do enjoy the arcades that have fans blowing things at me as I ski or whatever.

I wonder if I could get one of those pain ray things (I saw a demo with a fair level of accuracy) and wire it up instead of ultrasound or whatever they end up using.

I might also consider something like those "air blade" hand driers people seem to be enjoying of late and I have a few absorbent polymers that release their water under ultrasound as well. Find a way to crack momentum/impulse and the like and life will be good.

 

[Zerousen]

Dating sims, huh?

 

[mameks]

Dating sims, huh?

Tron.