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Does anyone remember the demos of Pranav Mistry's sixth sense device in 2011?
While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM ( http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/ ), it's still bound to a surface, and effectively just a 2D monochrome image presented with pressure instead of light. What I want to see is a haptic method that can represent complex topologies, and at the moment, it looks like that's still gloves (although this will certainly b…
I could wrong about this intuition, but I think this mainly because of the simple fact that sound is just disturbances in a medium that we are walking through constantly and can feel to some degree (ie air).
The title is wrong. It can be felt, not seen. Note their mention of "invisible."
While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM ( http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/ ), it's still bound to a surface, and effectively just a 2D monochrome image presented with pressure instead of light. What I want to see is a haptic method that can represent complex topologies, and at the moment, it looks like that's still gloves (although this will certainly b…
I don't follow you. inFORM looks like a heightmap, yes, but this claims to be a volumetric shape.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. Contrary to what the images want you to believe, these are invisible shapes, detectable only by touch.
It does however say "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." Although I assume that's not the normal mode of operation.
The title is wrong. It can be felt, not seen. Note their mention of "invisible."
They were probably referring to the oil depressions being visible but the title is certainly misleading.
While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM ( http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/ ), it's still bound to a surface, and effectively just a 2D monochrome image presented with pressure instead of light. What I want to see is a haptic method that can represent complex topologies, and at the moment, it looks like that's still gloves (although this will certainly b…
>it's still bound to a surface, and effectively just a 2D monochrome image presented with pressure instead of light. I don't follow you. inFORM looks like a heightmap, yes, but this claims to be a volumetric shape.
From the implementation, you can clearly tell it isn't, though. There'd be no way to feel the underside of that sphere.