A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
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#2This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg
With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?).
Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
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#3This solves a really big problem with gestural interaction, the lack of feedback other than visual cues. Right now the only way to get this is through gloves, rings etc. which are impractical at best and impossible for many of the early use cases (for example: surgeons who need to keep their hands sterile).
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#4This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?). Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
No. Contrary to what the images want you to believe, these are invisible shapes, detectable only by touch.
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#5This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?). Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
"Haptic" means touch, not light. ("Sound" is another hint.)
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#6While 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 be useful for quick/casual interactions, as well as its applications in the medical field as michaeljansen notes).
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#7Well that's a demoscene platform that's not gonna translate well to the big screen.
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#8This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?). Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
"Haptic" means touch, not light. ("Sound" is another hint.)
Gutted :(
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#9This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?). Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
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.
Re: A 3D haptic shape using ultrasound that can be seen and felt
#10This seems to make the R2D2 Starwars Leia hologram message viable? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg With this kind of technology built into Playstation 7 you'll be able to play FIFA 2025 in a big living room with all your friends, with an entire mini football pitch projected in the middle of everyone (in 4D?). Awesome. I've been imagining this for years!
While the submission link technology doesn't allow for this, it's being worked on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNoOiXkXmYQ
Still sort of rudimentary, but the foundation is there.