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While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM (http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/inform/ http://tangible.media
by spb 12y ago
While this certainly looks better (cleaner + higher resolution and range) than MIT's inFORM (http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/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).
- asimpletune 12y agoAgreed, amazing new interfaces could be made if we could touch a complex 3d topology. Although the demonstration fell flat of those expectations, I still think that sound is the way to go in the future. 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).
- jere 12y ago>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.
- spb 12y ago> 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.